Is There Such a Thing as a Home You Can Keep?

A poem by New Orleans writer Christopher Louis Romaguera: from a grandfather’s Havana to the riptide of Miami to New Orleans, one family keeps learning the arithmetic of leaving.

Born in Hialeah, Florida, and a graduate of Florida International University in Miami and the University of New Orleans, Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer living in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a VONA alum, was a 2023 Periplus Fellow, a monthly columnist at The Ploughshares Blog and was the poetry editor at Peauxdunque Review. Romaguera’s translation of Hernán Lara Zavala’s novel, Charras: A True Novel of the Assassination That Roiled the Yucatan, was published by UNO Press in 2025.