Javier Zamora

Biography

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a CantoMundo, 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner, and a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Fellow. Zamora’s first book, Unaccompanied,is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.

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POETRY / Summer 2017

Doctor’s Office First Week in This Country

By Javier Zamora

it’s procedure to inspect 
the ass of an immigrant kid

undress put this gown on
the doctor will be here soon

POETRY / Summer 2017

Alterations

By Javier Zamora

She says she lit a candle and placed it under my balls when I was born
because they were too big,

POETRY / Summer 2017

San Francisco Bay and “Mt. Tam”

By Javier Zamora

Every day there’s the bay, every day, every night, once, it was Estero de Jaltepec: