Tag: Latinx
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018 – Moving Clouds with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
We’re moving clouds with Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras is an award-winning author who was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Guernica, and Huffington Post, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate.
We’ll start with a clip of from Rojas Contreras’ performance at City of Asylum in July 2019, then we’ll transition to an interview we just did with Ingrid, some conversation, and finally we’ll get to what we’re reading and some thoughts for the road. We'll be talking spiritualism, writing and identity, as well as that time Adriana tried to buy some contraband and ended up with Something Special.
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016 – Eating Fire with Jose Hernandez Diaz
We’re eating fire with poet Jose Hernandez Diaz
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Antioch University Los Angeles. His work appears in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Green Mountains Review, Huizache, New Orleans Review, North American Review, The Progressive, Witness, among others. He has served as an editor for Floricanto Press and Lunch Ticket. His manuscript was a finalist for the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
We'll be talking astrology, Frida Kahlo, and the different definitions of "pocho."
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013 – Peeling Oranges with Ada Limón
We’re peeling oranges with Ada Limón. Ada Limón is the author of the poetry collections The Carrying, Bright Dead Things, and several other books, poems, and essays.
We'll be talking about voice, faith, and answering the most impossible question of all: what is poetry? We'll also be talking about comics and revenge monsters. -
Transcript: 004 – Hanging with Helena María Viramontes
Karla: Today, we're hanging out with Helena María Viramontes.
Adriana: Helena Maria Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories and two novels: Under the Feet of Jesus and Their Dogs Came with Them. She has also co-edited with Maria Herrera Sobek two collections: Chicana (W)rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism.
