Episode 8 - The Poetry of Border Crossing: A Conversation with Javier Zamora

08/01/2021 31 min
Episode 8 - The Poetry of Border Crossing: A Conversation with Javier Zamora

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Episode Synopsis

This episode brings poetry to the crucial task of reinventing solidarity. New Labor Forum Editor Paula Finn hosts a conversation with award winning poet Javier Zamora, who at nine years old left his home in El Salvador and made his way, as an unaccompanied minor, through Guatemala and Mexico and across the Sonoran Desert to reunite with his parents in California. In this interview, Zamora reflects on this experience and on the role of poetry in movements for social justice, and reads poems from his book Unaccompanied.