Marysville, Calif. In high school, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo began writing poetry. The abstract art form gave him a way to express his experiences without revealing his secret: As a young child, he had crossed the border from Mexico illegally with his parents, he says. “With poetry, I could really distance myself, and with prose I couldn’t,”...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 28, 2020 20:47 UTC