'I believe that the words we use to define ourselves are flexible and aspirational,' says Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, the new president of the Academy of American Poets.
. So, I’d like to think that I am part of this ongoing conversation that we’ve been having as Latino writers and poets, specifically, about poetry and the role of poetry in our personal lives and in the lives of our communities.Oh, my God, that’s ‘the’ question. I feel like Latinidad is a work in progress because we have to do the work of identifying those communities we intersect with, and with kindness, understanding and compassion in mind.
In “The Life Assignment,” you first write in Spanish, and at times you mistranslated into English, how and why did you take that approach? To be a poet means to constantly reassess how language plays a part in your life. I realized that I needed to somehow take account of the political nature of a Puerto Rican poet who speaks, writes in both languages, but who has made a conscious decision to write in Spanish first, and then translate into English.In teaching poetry, what are some of your favorite lessons or poets you tend to turn to?has been instrumental in my development as a poet because she is ours.
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