A Blank Verse Converse

by Marco Katz Montiel / May 11th, 2025

Believe it or not, he remains locked up.
I mean Kilmar Abrego García,
By all accounts an innocent person.
And he is by no means the only one
Still in need of our constant attention.

Kids like Margarita Prokopenko—

Imprisoned—and Aisha Kachalla,
Deserve to be with their loving families
Soon, or they too might just run out of time.

Marco Katz Montiel composes poetry and prose in Spanish, English, and musical notes. He went to college late, and then alienated one university by publishing about bigotry on campus and got kicked to the curb by two others for his union activities. Still, Marco managed to graduate and even publish a book on music and literature with Palgrave. His essays, poems, and stories appear in Ploughshares, Jerry Jazz Music, English Studies in Latin America, Copihue Poetry, Camino Real, WestWard Quarterly, Lowestoft Chronicle, Dissident Voice, and in the anthologies Cartas de desamor y otras adicciones, There’s No Place, and the Capital City Press Anthology. Read other articles by Marco Katz, or visit Marco Katz's website.

This article was posted on Sunday, May 11th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.