Every Day We Get More Illegal

Cover art: “Detention X” Prismacolor markers on found cardboard,

by Juan Felipe Herrera, 2019

Cover design by em dash

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Herrera, Juan Felipe, author.

Title: Every day we get more illegal / Juan Felipe Herrera.

Description: San Francisco : City Lights Books, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019056674 | ISBN 9780872868281 (trade paperback)

Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

Classification: LCC PS3558.E74 E88 2020 | DDC 811/.54--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019056674

Abundant thank you’s to the following online and offline publishers for taking my work to many readers:

Boston Review, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Foundation, Love’s Executive Order, Best American Poetry 2020, Pushcart Prize Anthology 2019, Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now, Poems for Political Disaster, Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

NOTE:

“todavía estoy aquí the deported father said” was written in conversation with the photography portfolio of Jonathan Maldonado, grade 12, Essex Street Academy, New York, NY. Presented in the 2017 National Catalog of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

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