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Anthony Cody selects poems that ask hard questions about war, borders, gender, power, US history, and ourselves\\u2014questions asked in order to remind us of the discomfort necessary for change on individual and collective levels. Cody shares Pat Mora\\u2019s inversion of relationships between speaker and audience, pursuer and pursued (\\u201cLa Migra\\u201d), Michael S. Harper\\u2019s use of staccato repetition to sear atrocity into memory (\\u201cA White Friend Flies in from the Coast\\u201d), and Diana Garc\\xeda\\u2019s revelation of truths that span generations (Excerpts from \\u201cSerpentine Voices\\u201d). Cody closes with his translation of Juan Felipe Herrera\\u2019s \\u201cDudo las Luces / I Question the Lights,\\u201d which draws attention to the forgotten in our political landscape.

You can find the full recordings of Mora, Harper, and Garc\\xeda reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Pat Mora (1996)
Michael S. Harper (1973)
Diana Garc\\xeda (2002)