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Jose\\u0301 Antonio Rodri\\u0301guez joins Kevin Young to read \\u201c[World of the future, we thirsted](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/world-of-the-future-we-thirsted),\\u201d by Naomi Shihab Nye, and his own poem \\u201c[Tender](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/tender).\\u201d Rodri\\u0301guez is a poet, memoirist, and translator whose honors include a Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and a Discovery Award from the Writers\\u2019 League of Texas. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
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