Rubén Degollado

Oct 24, 2024 | texashighways.com | Lauren Hough |W.K. Stratton |Rubén Degollado |Fowzia Karimi

Aug 22, 2024 | texashighways.com | Rubén Degollado |Danielle Lopez

When I was 10 years old—after living in Indiana my whole life—my parents moved us back to their home state of Texas. To celebrate, our extended family took us to The Round-Up Restaurant in Pharr, widely considered the fanciest Mexican eatery in the Rio Grande Valley at the time. I joined everyone around a cramped table, but menus never arrived and our order wasn’t taken.

May 8, 2023 | thecommononline.org | Rubén Degollado

By RUBÉN DEGOLLADOWhatever you believe, know this: Teodoro Ramirez’s dog could see into the spirit world. Teddy, as he was called by everyone in barrio La Zavala, never shared this with anyone. Of course, the only people he could have shared this with would have been his co-workers or his tíos and tías, who only came by his house occasionally now that his mother, Josefina, had died, que en paz descanse.

May 8, 2023 | thecommononline.org | Rubén Degollado

Curated by SOFIA BELIMOVAHappy May! Our 25th issue launches on Monday, bringing you a portfolio of unforgettable writing from Kuwait, poems about rodents, car washes, and colonization, and prose pieces about art, religion, albatrosses, and snowcats. In this installment of Friday Reads, Issue 25 contributors reflect on some of their favorite books. James Fujinami Moore’s Indecent Hours, recommended by Eugene Gloria (Issue 25 contributor)James Fujinami Moore’s poems provoke and trouble.