Omega School executive director Oscar Mireles has a riveting poem titled "Lost and Found Language" in a newly published anthology "Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience."
The poem tells the story of his oldest brother coming home from school in Racine in 1949, where he'd flunked kindergarten for not speaking English. His parents, he penned, responded by "slicing our tongues in half." Explains Mireles, "The poem tries to capture the personal shame and decision of my family to pursue educational success at a personal cost of losing my native tongue."
To see the entire article by Melanie Conklin in the Wisconsin State Journal at
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