North Bronx – The Literary Bronx

Two Poems of the Italian Bronx

I was prompted to write “Let’s Hear It for the Italians” by the pain of my Dad’s life.

In this memorable short story, an independent-minded girl comes of age in the 1960s in Van Cortlandt Village

“The Bronx been burning and you’re all pr-pr-prone to Alzheimer’s!” (Quiñones, “The Get Down,” 1:28). Whenever people think of the

In the poetry collection Conversations with My Skin (2011), Peggy Robles-Alvarado shares her resilient story of becoming pregnant at fifteen