In Search of Texas’s Hidden Polish Heritage
Just southeast of San Antonio, a rare European American dialect may be dying, or already dead. That’s a shame. Or is it?
Alicia Maria Meier is the assistant managing editor at Texas Monthly and a translator from Spanish and Catalan. She earned her MFA from Columbia University, where she went on to manage the international translation exchange program Word for Word and its anthology publications. She is a PEN/Heim Translation Award winner and enjoys writing about language and literature. She is a native of Washington, D.C.
Just southeast of San Antonio, a rare European American dialect may be dying, or already dead. That’s a shame. Or is it?
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