X marks the spot

Writers Against Racism continues with media specialist Edi Campbell and writer Francisco X. Stork; can you imagine being punished for speaking your mother tongue?  That brings to mind Marlene Nourbese Phillip’s poem, “Discourse on the Logic of Language”:

… and english is
my mother tongue
is
my father tongue
is  lan lan lang
language
l/anguish
anguish
a foreign anguish
is english-…

You can listen to the poet read her entire poem here.