With May’s ICE dragnets and similar immigration enforcement detentions taking place all over town, host Marie Cecile Anderson sits down with Nina Adel, a program director at writing collective The Porch, and Nallely Ortega Prater, a poet and first-generation immigrant from Mexico, to discuss how their Immigrants Write workshop provides a truly safe artistic space. Nallely also reads her new poem, titled “If I Go Missing.”

**This episode originally aired Feb. 26, 2025

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