UIndy’s Potluck Podcast - SEASON 6 – EPISODE 6 – José Olivarez
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In this episode of UIndy’s Potluck Podcast, where we host conversations about the arts, ENGL 478 students Emma Knaack and Griffin Cloyer interview poet, José Olivarez, a guest of the Kellogg Writers Series, which is a series that brings writers of distinction to the University of Indianapolis campus for classroom discussions and free public readings. A big thank you to UIndy Music major Gabriel Bynoe for editing this episode.
José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the author of Citizen Illegal and Promises of Gold, the co-author of Home Court, co-editor of BreakBeat Poets 4: LatiNEXT, and the co-host of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods. His work has been published in the BreakBeat Poets, the Adroit Journal, the Rumpus, and other places. He earned a BA from Harvard University. Named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers, he is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Conversation Literary Festival.
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