A Broken Crayon Still Colors

You're about to enter the mind of Albert Anthony del Toral Franco (1983-20XX), a Cuban-American poet who grew up in South Florida, through 67 poems he penned from December 1996 through January 2025.

Though all these poems were written at very different intervals in his life, from the ages of 13 to 41, the Miami native is now presenting them jointly as one collection, and he has included a few of the award-winning poems from every decade of his professional career: "Christmas All Year 'Round"...