Welcome

Welcome to the work of Ricardo Nazario y Colón.

This space gathers poems shaped by the Bronx, Puerto Rico, Appalachia, and the long routes of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Much of my writing explores the histories carried inside ordinary lives—migration, memory, language, and the complicated inheritance of colonial history.

The poems here move between places and generations. Some speak from the streets of New York, others from the mountains of Appalachia or the island that remains at the center of Puerto Rican imagination. Together they form a record of how culture travels, survives, and remakes itself.

Thank you for visiting.

Ricardo Nazario y Colón

Featured Poem

The Land That Held Them 

The land itself
became an unwilling parent—
holding children
who should have been returned
to warm hands,
to known mountains,
to stories spoken in familiar tongues. 

The ground does not choose
who sleeps in it. 

But it remembers
every weight
placed upon it. 

—from Flesh to the Bone