Ricardo Nazario y Colón's work has appeared in Louisville Review, Acentos Review, Appalachian Reckoning, and many other anthologies and journals. He currently serves as the Senior Vice Chancellor for DEI/Chief Diversity Officer for the State University of New York System. He is also a cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets, committed to cultivating poetry that reflects the complexity of geographies and genealogies.
I bring saltwater in my blood, but the mountains ask for stillness— they do not know the pull of tides in the bones of men like me. Each ridge forgets the shoreline, each pine denies driftwood. I sleep among limestone whispers, brown skin mistaken for autumn bark. This land was not made for my voice— but I carve it in… Read more →