Mouth of the River, Tongue of No Country

"Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro Panamanian American poet and playwright whose books include Stepmotherland, winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and an International Latino Book Award, and Migrant Psalms, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize."

"His poems have appeared and are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and Callaloo."

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro Panamanian American poet and playwright. His books include Stepmotherland, which won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and an International Latino Book Award, and Migrant Psalms, which won the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared and are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and Callaloo. His work explores migration, identity, and diasporic experience through lyric and dramatic forms. Recognition from prize committees and placement in prominent journals underscores a growing presence within contemporary American and Latino literary communities.

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