03:45 - Growing up in Cal City, Starting Poetry, and going to Harvard. 19:39 - Becoming a "poet" as a profession and Citizen Illegal 22:55 - Promises of Gold 28:23 - a Performance of "An Almost Sonnet for My Mom's Almost Life" 32:19 - Poetry is not a cure for Toxic Masculinity, but can it help? 39:38 - Being unable to express love starts early, and a Richard Montanez shoutout 41:04 - Translating poems to Spanish, Zacate, and anti translation as a resistance to empire 57:16 - Mexicans love beans, deal with it. 59:12 - Poetry in general, advice on how to read and how to write it

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The article that inspired this episode: https://elpasomatters.org/2023/02/05/el-paso-texas-corn-tortillas-embrace-maize-history-culture/

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Books mentioned: Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas - Roberto Cintli Rodríguez

Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico - Alyshia Gálvez

Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America - Laresh Jayasanker

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Read Roberto on ESPN.com here: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35440119/cost-rooting-america-team

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Valerie Gonzalez's reporting here: https://myrgv.com/local-news/2023/01/21/language-barriers-tech-glitches-impacting-access-to-new-us-asylum-app/

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Let's do dis 2023!

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Quien sabe. Thanks to some of the El Pochcast All Stars for joining the show!

SEE YOU IN 2023

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No such thing as naco music.

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I will never stop saying we shouldn't have turkey. Also a little note on Memo Ochoa's heroics vs Poland.

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