For the final episode of this provocative series, my cousin interviews me about our experience growing up in poverty and what it means for our success and stability today! Listen to this episode, but do listen to the whole series. The struggle is REAL!

Producer Jonathan Menjivar listens in on Angelina Sáenz’s parent-teacher conferences at a bilingual school in Los Angeles, the day after Donald Trump is elected.

Corazon Collective is a group of Latina poets who are currently touring and will be in Las Cruces later this week. They teach a poetry workshop and will also have a Sunday evening reading at Nopalito's Galeria. Peter and Richard will be talking with them, in studio.

I was so proud to be interviewed by the one and only, Dr. George Meza. In this interview, we talk about my background and how poetry has helped me heal and transform generations of family karma. Gracias George, por la oportunidad.

Angelina Saenz is a poet and author of Edgecliff, a collection of poems. She read selections from Edgecliff at a recent reading of Mujeres Divinas at the Tia Chuca bookstore in Sylmar, California.

On a recent Sunday, the main gallery was filled to capacity for the launch of Angelina Sáenz’s poetry collection “Edgecliff.”

“When restaurants and shops took over York, I moved to Hermon,” said Saenz, 50, who taught her students about Dolores Huerta, native peoples, and Black inventors. “When they took over Figueroa, I started hanging out around Huntington Drive. I know there are contradictions, and it’s very nuanced. I can only talk about the loss I feel when neighbors, shops, and restaurants I hold dear to my heart close. Then a new business opens, charges a shitload of money, and doesn’t feel welcome. But not everyone from the old neighborhood feels this way and has told me to stop talking shit, so it’s complicated.”