Adela Najarro's guest appearances

Adela Najarro

Out of Our Minds on KKUP

The Hive Poetry Collective

Patrice Vecchione

Sally Ashton

Naomi Shihab Nye

Morgan Parker

Luis Valdez

Patricia Smith

John McCarthy

Jessica Taylor

Ellen Bass

Carl Phillips

Charles Simic

Rob Fisher

Edgar Allen Poe

Julie Murphy

Maggie Smith

OwlTail

Victoria Bañales

Victoria Bañales interviews Santa Cruz-based Latinx poet Adela Najarro. Adela Najarro is the author of three poetry collections: Split Geography, Twice Told Over and My Childrens, a chapbook that includes teaching resources. With My Childrens she hopes to bring poetry into the classroom so that students can explore creative writing, identity, and what it means to be Latinx in US society. Every spring semester, she teaches a “Poetry for the People,” workshop at Cabrillo College where students explore personal voice and social justice through poetry and spoken word. More information about Adela can be found at her website: www.adelanajarro.com. Círculo de poetas &amp; Writers: Sign up for Círculo's 2021 online (Zoom) conference: Sat, August 14th, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm. Writing workshops, friendship, and open mic. Go to https://circulowriters.com/ to register. Links to videos of five poems from My Childrens: My Childrens Lorca's Rain Las Mujeres Chicanos in a Museum An Ambiguity

Victoria Bañales interviews Santa Cruz-based Latinx poet Adela Najarro. Adela Najarro is the author of three poetry collections: Split Geography, Twice Told Over and My Childrens, a chapbook that includes teaching resources. With My Childrens she hopes to bring poetry into the classroom so that students can explore creative writing, identity, and what it means to be Latinx in US society. Every spring semester, she teaches a “Poetry for the People,” workshop at Cabrillo College where students explore personal voice and social justice through poetry and spoken word. More information about Adela can be found at her website: <a href="http://www.adelanajarro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.adelanajarro.com</a>. Círculo de poetas &amp; Writers: Sign up for Círculo's 2021 online (Zoom) conference: Sat, August 14th, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm. Writing workshops, friendship, and open mic. Go to <a href="https://circulowriters.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://circulowriters.com/</a> to register. Links to videos of five poems from My Childrens: <a href="https://youtu.be/CO6qSumE4YA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Childrens</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/kmay9STCpD8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lorca's Rain</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/8b4K53KNeO4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Las Mujeres</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/M7S5slPaYC4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chicanos in a Museum</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/8TehwRSUDDQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">An Ambiguity</a>

S3: E22 Adela Najarro with Victoria Bañales

Adela Najarro is the author of three poetry collections: My Childrens, Split Geography, Twice Told Over. Along with her colleagues, Jennifer Fletcher and Hetty Yelland, she edited Fostering Habits of Mind in Today’s Students: A New Approach to Developmental Education. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College as the English instructor for the Puente Project, a program designed to support Latinidad in all its aspects, while preparing community college students to transfer to four year colleges and universities. Her extended family’s emigration from Nicaragua to San Francisco began in the 1940’s and concluded in the eighties when the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing from Western Michigan University, as well as an M.F.A. from Vermont College. Her poetry appears in the University of Arizona Press anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, and she has published poems in numerous journals, including Porter Gulch Review, Acentos Review, BorderSenses, Feminist Studies, Puerto del Sol, Nimrod International Journal of Poetry &amp; Prose, Notre Dame Review, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere.  She now calls Santa Cruz home.

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