Pan de Alma is a reclamation of identity and heritage. In this award-winning chapbook, Colombian-American Marcella Prokop navigates the streets of Bogot�, Cartagena and other cities, exploring the complexities of cultural and personal identity. In "Hunger," she confronts privilege by examining desire and dependence (Moonlight sugars our pale skin/ And I know again, in new ways/ the freedom and fullness/ of my young, foreign body"). In "Omayra's Eyes," she views the vastness of the universe through the eyes of a dying child ("Look into those eyes/and know what it is to endure/as if the soul were a penny/searching the depths for a peaceful bottom"). Whether she's contemplating her experience as a tourist or wondering what it means that "Colombians are Americans, too," Prokop celebrates abundance and agency in the face of absence and expectation, exploring connections to place and people across time and space. The poems in this collection layer language and myth and "national sabor" to set a resplendent table for readers hungry to know Prokop's heartland as more than a country of US interventions and violence.

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Marcella Prokop is an award-winning writer and educator whose experiences as a Colombian-American inform her teaching and writing. As an educator, she centers diasporic voices and promotes culturally sustaining, anti-racist storytelling practices. Marcella's work addresses dualities, binaries, and the impact of US imperialism on marginalized people and places. She holds a BA in Journalism, an MFA in Creative Nonfiction, and is pursuing a PhD in English. In addition to her literary work, Marcella runs an apiary and cidery with her partner. She lives on the ancestral and contemporary homelands of the Oceti Sakowin in the Upper Midwest, and also online at marcellaprokop.com.

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