This week, Leo (https://twitter.com/leoboix) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "Unholy Family" and "That Single Memory" and familial expectations.
Leo's Poems:
1. "Unholy Family": https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/epic-journey-through-life-and-language
2. "Table Variations": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/149578/table-variations
3. Magma Poetry Resistencia issue edited by Leo: https://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-76/
4. Un Nuevo Sol: British LatinX Writers Anthology https://www.amazon.com/Nuevo-Sol-British-LatinX-Writers/dp/1905233566
Other ways to follow Leo:
1. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012089438306
2. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boixleo/
3. Website: https://www.leonardoboix.co.uk/
See Leo Read:
1. In Person: 22 August – 16 October 2020 (London, UK)
https://www.kew.org/press-media/travel-the-world-at-kew
2. Virtually: October 12th at 3pm (ET) at the 23rd Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival “Intercambios: Queer Latinx Poetics Across Borders event”
https://www.utahhumanities.org/index.php/Center-for-the-Book/book-festival.html
Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of August 24th.
Photo of Leo Boix by Naomi Woddis (https://www.naomiwoddis.com/).
Links to topics we touched on:
1. Hieronymus Bosch: https://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/
2. Nunca Más (Never Again): http://www.desaparecidos.org/nuncamas/web/english/library/nevagain/nevagain_000.htm
3. El campaña del desierto (The Desert Campaign) Indigenous Genocide in Argentina: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol5/iss2/3/ and https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2014001435.html
4. 2019 Keats-Shelley Prize: https://www.keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats_shelley_prize_2019
5. https://www.amazon.com/Nuevo-Sol-British-LatinX-Writers/dp/1905233566
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