“Dialectics” & “Why They Grow Corn in the Philippines”

Dana Ysabel De La Cruz is a community organizer, poet, and public librarian living in Brooklyn. Their work is situated in the struggle against imperialism. They have received fellowships at the Poetry Project and Brooklyn Poets. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Protean Magazine, Apogee Journal, and elsewhere. Born in Manila, they have lived by the ocean their entire life.