Filamentos by Bruma Publications from PBBI-Fresno State, proudly congratulates Millicent Borges Accardi on the publication of her poem “Good Tank Farms” in The Paris Review, one of the world’s most influential literary journals and a beacon for contemporary writing. At a time when literature must hold space for complexity, labor, and lived experience, The Paris Review continues to foster voices that push language toward greater honesty and imaginative reach. Millicent’s appearance in its pages is both a triumph for her remarkable body of work and a moment of pride for Portuguese-American letters, whose presence in the global literary conversation grows stronger with each such recognition.

In “Good Tank Farms,” Millicent transforms the industrial landscapes of working America into a mythic terrain—tender, stoic, strangely human—capturing the quiet heroism embedded in the places where so many immigrant and working-class lives unfold. Her poem reminds us that even the most utilitarian spaces carry stories of endurance, belonging, and purpose.

We invite readers of The Paris Review and beyond to discover this luminous new poem and to celebrate a writer whose voice continues to widen the horizons of our shared literary world.