Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador, in 1990. At the age of nine he immigrated to the United States. Zamora is a Breadloaf scholarship recipient and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Narrative, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere.
Poetry
July/Aug 2016
Let Me Try Again
I could bore you with the sunset, the way water tasted after so many days without it, the trees, the breed of dogs, but I can’t say there were forty […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
To Abuelita Nelly
It’s my 14th time pressing roses in fake passports for each year I haven’t climbed maranon trees. I’m sorry I’ve lied about where I was born. Today, this country chose […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
Aftermath
Condoms trapped in mangroves, sometimes shrapnel, and always that rotted scent of abandoned pelican nests. Graffiti and old campaign posters taped to the piers stores where tourists once bought cocktails […]
Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador, in 1990. At the age of nine he immigrated to the United States. Zamora is a Breadloaf scholarship recipient and holds […]