Laurie Ann Guerrero's guest appearances

Laurie Ann Guerrero

Words on a Wire

Roaring Out

Patrick Rosal

Philip Goff

Junot Diaz

Billy Collins

Reyna Grande

Luis Alberto Urrea

Philip Levine

Alfredo Corchado

Natalie Goldberg

Helen Lopez

Edward Hirsch

Gabriel Gomez

Nicole Georges

Mark Strand

Rita Mae Brown

OwlTail

In this episode, Michelle shares Laurie Ann Guerrero's poem "Esperanza Tells Her Friends the Story of La Llorona" from her book A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying.

Episode 25: National Poetry Month - Laurie Ann Guerrero

Daniel &amp; Ben talk with Laurie Ann Guerrero, author of "A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying," winner of the 2012 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize.  Guerrero talks about the overwhelming feeling of winning the prize for a book that took over 10 years to write.  Guerrero, who is also a CantoMundo Fellow, talks about why she felt like an outsider when getting her MFA, but instantly felt a sense of familia, support, and freedom when she attended a CantoMundo workshop.  Many of Guerrero's poems focus on food and the violence that often accompanies the preparation of food, and she explains why her background has everything to do with the inspiration behind her poems.For this week's Poem of the Week, Laurie Ann Guerrero reads "When I Made Eggs This Morning" from her collection "A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying."

Daniel &amp; Ben talk with Laurie Ann Guerrero, author of "A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying," winner of the 2012 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize.  Guerrero talks about the overwhelming feeling of winning the prize for a book that took over 10 years to write.  Guerrero, who is also a CantoMundo Fellow, talks about why she felt like an outsider when getting her MFA, but instantly felt a sense of familia, support, and freedom when she attended a CantoMundo workshop.  Many of Guerrero's poems focus on food and the violence that often accompanies the preparation of food, and she explains why her background has everything to do with the inspiration behind her poems.<br/><br/>For this week's Poem of the Week, Laurie Ann Guerrero reads "When I Made Eggs This Morning" from her collection "A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying."

Ben and Daniel talk with Laurie Ann Guerrero