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I'm Jay Allison, and in this show, we're hearing about the way we see ourselves versus the way others see us.

Spoiler alert, they aren't always the same. Our first

story comes from Enrique Garcia Naranjo, who told this live on stage at the Mesa Arts Center

in Arizona. Here's Enrique.

So I'm getting ready for this poetry performance in front of 60 to 70 high school students in Douglas, Arizona, a town that sits about five minutes away from the U.S.-Mexico border.

And I'm getting to read this poem I wrote about my barrio.

The barrio I lived in for the majority of my teenage years.

And as I'm getting ready for this poem, I look into the crowd and I see all the sleepy and uninterested faces. And quickly I went him over with this poem I wrote about the holiness of tacos

and the unrelenting spirit of Mexican grandmothers.

And right after that poem, I asked them to pull out pencils and paper for them to write.

I give them a prompt, one of my favorite prompts when I'm doing this sort of thing, the city within my chest.

And after that, I leave the school with my partner, Selina, who drove up there with me,

and I'm reflecting on the students in their poems.

Specifically on the way they wrote these poems, right?

Bilingual, in English and Spanish, a real reflection of who they are as people,

people between cultures, between languages,

Fronteristas and Fronterisos, people of the border.

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