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Each Bring A Poem With Elisa Albo
Another
joyful, deep dive into two poems. This time my guest is Elisa Albo, a local
poet and professor. In this episode, Elisa picks the poem, Photograph of the Girl by Sharon Olds. Yael’s
pick is The Last Thing by Ada Limón.
This episode’s guest, Elisa Albo is an award-winning
professor of composition, literature, ESL, and creative writing at Broward
College. A contributing editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual
Harassment, Empowerment, and Healing, her poetry chapbooks are Passage to America,
based on her family immigrant story, and Each Day More, a collection of
elegies. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,
including Alimentum, Bomb, Crab Orchard Review,
Irresistible Appetites, MiPoesias, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Super Highway, SWWIM
Every Day, Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents, and
Vinegar and Char. Nominated in 2021 for a Best of the Net award, she is
an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and co-produces
the Seahawk Writing Conference at Broward College where she also teaches a
food-themed film and literature course. Born in Havana, she lives with her family
in Fort Lauderdale.
Each Bring a Poem’s host Yael Valencia Aldana is the author of the forthcoming
poetry collection, Black Mestiza (University Press of Kentucky, 2025)
and of the chapbook, Alien(s) (Bottlecap Press). She is the winner of
the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series
Prize 2023 in poetry. She
is a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and Craft
Literary. She teaches creative writing at Florida International University
and lives in South Florida with her son and too many pets. You can find her
online at YaelAldana.com.
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By Yael Valencia AldanaAnother
joyful, deep dive into two poems. This time my guest is Elisa Albo, a local
poet and professor. In this episode, Elisa picks the poem, Photograph of the Girl by Sharon Olds. Yael’s
pick is The Last Thing by Ada Limón.
This episode’s guest, Elisa Albo is an award-winning
professor of composition, literature, ESL, and creative writing at Broward
College. A contributing editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual
Harassment, Empowerment, and Healing, her poetry chapbooks are Passage to America,
based on her family immigrant story, and Each Day More, a collection of
elegies. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,
including Alimentum, Bomb, Crab Orchard Review,
Irresistible Appetites, MiPoesias, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Super Highway, SWWIM
Every Day, Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents, and
Vinegar and Char. Nominated in 2021 for a Best of the Net award, she is
an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and co-produces
the Seahawk Writing Conference at Broward College where she also teaches a
food-themed film and literature course. Born in Havana, she lives with her family
in Fort Lauderdale.
Each Bring a Poem’s host Yael Valencia Aldana is the author of the forthcoming
poetry collection, Black Mestiza (University Press of Kentucky, 2025)
and of the chapbook, Alien(s) (Bottlecap Press). She is the winner of
the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series
Prize 2023 in poetry. She
is a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and Craft
Literary. She teaches creative writing at Florida International University
and lives in South Florida with her son and too many pets. You can find her
online at YaelAldana.com.