Javier Zamora on the Role of a Writer in Todays World.
Javier Zamora is a writer who believes he has a particular responsibility: to understand and also change the world through words. He comes from a tradition of poets in El Salvador who used poetry to denounce injustices, the \u201cGeneraci\xf3n Comprometida,\u201d and his personal experience of migrating as a child alone to the United States has shaped his worldview. In his work, Javier has shared some of the most intimate and difficult moments of his own history, first in the award-winning poetry collection \u201cUnaccompanied\u201d and then in the New York Times best-selling memoir \u201cSolito.\u201d
\n\nIn this intimate conversation, Javier shares what it was like to return to those painful episodes in his writing, the complicated relationship he has with El Salvador, and what he hopes the role of poets and writers could be in these turbulent times.