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José Olivarez joins me to talk about how poetry can hold love, humor, and resistance at once. We discuss audience, voice, and the many truths a poem can carry.

José is the author of Promises of Gold and Citizen Illegal, award-winning collections that explore family, migration, and belonging.

Here you’ll find books by José Olivarez. Purchases through Bookshop.org support independent bookstores nationwide, and a small portion of each sale helps sustain the podcast, produced in partnership with WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport.