Yvette Borja interviews LA-based Salvi poet Yesika Salgado. They discuss how Yesika is writing into the silences of Salvadoran diaspora culture and history; Yesika shares her journey to becoming a published poet and the tensions around writing about a motherland steeped with historical trauma. 

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