Javier Zamora is the author of Unaccompanied, a poetry collection, and Solito, a memoir.

“There was something that I felt eating away at me, which made me a very angry and volatile teenager. And I think I was an angry teenager because I had this trauma that nobody around me could talk about, and that I didn't have the right therapist to help me unpack. So the cheapest thing that I had was poetry.”

Show notes:

• @jzsalvipoet
• javierzamora.net
• 03:00 “Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds” (Lit Hub • April 2019)
• 18:00 Krik? Krak! (Edwidge Danticat • Soho Press • 2015)
• 31:00 franciscocantu.us
• 37:00 The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Óscar Martínez • Verso Books • 2013)
• 42:00 “Zamora: It’s time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens” (Los Angeles Times • July 2023)

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