Undocupoets helps immigrant poets regardless of legal status
Print Anyone can write a poem. To be a poet, though — to have your work read in an age not exactly teeming with famous verse stylists, Amanda Gorman aside — you have to submit. Every year, poets around the country submit their work for dozens of prizes and contests, hoping for a shot at prestige, visibility, maybe eventually an academic job offer. It’s a difficult path, and until recently it was an impossible one for poets like Javier Zamora. Zamora earned his MFA in poetry in 2014 at New York University under the best writers in the country. He’d been published in literary journals l...
Source: latimes.com