Ep. 17: Javier Zamora & Jennifer De Leon

Javier tells James about his journey to the United States at the age of 9. They discuss the power of teachers, the Undocupoets Campaign, transcendent readings, struggling to find an ending, and his collection of poems, UNACCOMPANIED (fall 2017). Then, Jennifer De Leon talks about opportunities for teen writers, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, and her experiences teaching in the YAWP program at Grub Street in Boston.  

Javier and James Discuss:

Yusef Komunyakaa

Sharon Olds  

Alejandro Zambra 

Valeria Luiselli 

Dick Scanlan

Roberto Bolano 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

Jorge Luis Borges 

ONE STORY 

Yaddo 

MacDowell Colony 

Pablo Neruda 

Rebecca Faust 

Squaw Valley Writers' Workshops 

Napa Valley Writers' Conference 

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 

Alberto Rios 

BIG FISH by Daniel Wallace 

UC- Berkeley 

NYU 

Olive B. O'Connor 

Peter Balakian

Carolyn Forche

Wallace Stegner Fellowship 

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship

UndocuPoets Campaign

Sibling Rivalry Press 

Wil S. Hylton 

Matthew Salesses 

Monica Sok

Jennifer and James Discuss:

YAWP (Young Adult Writers Program)

Grub Street

Val Wang 

Celeste Ng

Teen Ink 

826 

WriteBoston 

New England Young Writers' Conference 

Champlain College Young Writers' Conference 

Iowa Young Writers' Studio 

Sewanee Young Writers' Conference 

Reggie Gibson 

Junot Diaz 

ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. Taylor 

#WeNeedDiverseBooks 

VONA (Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation) 

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