The Belonging Issue

CRR #58 (Fall 2025)

What does it mean to belong?

Who gets to belong? Where should one belong? To a place?

A people? A community? A family? A culture? A language?

Creative Nonfiction

Arely Guzmán, “Made of Corn”

Daniel Campos Badilla, “San José del poniente al naciente”

Sonia Priscilla Ticas, “¿Quién eres tú?” (memoir excerpt)

Poetry

Marcos de la Fuente, “As cordas invisíbeis”

Ignacio Carvajal, “en lo que puede ser un camino”

Yolanda Rivera Castillo, “Foreign Words”

Romeu Foz, “há sílabas que machucam me maceram a língua”

Edoardo De Armas, “Tamarindos”

Carolina Quintero Valverde, “Buganvilia”

Judith Santopietro, “Nebaj York”

Alma Karla Sandoval, “Canción del no-lugar”

Rocío Bolaños, “Ricetta”

Rana Tahir, “Surah for the Birds”

Ulises Huete, “Mediodía de septiembre”

Melia Alzate Perea, “'¡Que sea para bien!”

Fiction

Luis Miguel Estrada, “Frío”

Mayli Quintero, “Semómenos” (KidLit)
“El Planeta Venezuela” (KidLit)

Yvonn Marquéz, “Add to Basket”

Book Reviews

McKenzie Watson-Fore reviews La Carte Postale by Anne Berest

Silvia Quezada reviews Mujeres Poetas de Panamá, edited by Sonia Ehlers