Episode 546: Javier Zamora

Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 5:47 p.m.

b"Javier Zamora is the author of\\xa0Unaccompanied, a poetry collection, and\\xa0Solito, a memoir.\\n\\u201cThere was something that I felt eating away at me, which made me a very angry and volatile teenager. And I think I was an angry teenager because I had this trauma that nobody around me could talk about, and that I didn't have the right therapist to help me unpack. So the cheapest thing that I had was poetry.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@jzsalvipoet\\n\\njavierzamora.net\\n\\n03:00\\xa0\\u201cReading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds\\u201d\\xa0(Lit Hub \\u2022 April 2019)\\n\\n18:00\\xa0Krik? Krak!\\xa0(Edwidge Danticat \\u2022 Soho Press \\u2022 2015)\\n\\n31:00\\xa0franciscocantu.us\\n\\n\\n37:00\\xa0The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail\\xa0(\\xd3scar Mart\\xednez \\u2022 Verso Books \\u2022 2013)\\n\\n42:00\\xa0\\u201cZamora: It\\u2019s time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens\\u201d\\xa0(Los Angeles Times \\u2022 July 2023)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"