Clementinos: Voices from the Clemente Writing Project
Read the powerful writings from graduates of the Clemente Course in which they explore the connections between personal experience, civic engagement and democracy.
Clementinos: Voices from the Clemente Writing Project
By Gri Martinez Saex Among mountains, valleys, and the Macacias River there is a small town twenty-one miles from the Haitian border, and 137 miles from Santo Domingo. Las Matas de Farfan, is part of the San Juan Province deep into the Furnia de Catanamatias and surrounded by the Cordillera Central Mountain Range that runs […]
By Hava Zejnullahu Imagine strolling along a picture-perfect beautiful island beach nothing but a gentle breeze flowing through your hair. You amble along barefooted for
By Larry Madden I I was jolted awake. Screams, name-calling, and curses downstairs. “You’ll never amount to anything.” The screen door slammed, my oldest sister
By Theresa Quinones/Buccico When conversations are taboo, wounds never heal. Pain is passed down from ancestors along with physical traits; I can hear the echoing
By William Murphy My favorite combat position was prone by an ancient elm tree that, despite the exposed roots digging into my skinny ribcage, afforded