Tomás Q. Morín
Where Are You From: Tomás Q. Morín on Ancestral Language, Writing, & Raising Kids to Know Their Roots
Season 4
Episode 2
Things discussed in this episode:
Struggles with one’s ancestral language as a native English speaker
Feeling both part of yet outside of your ancestral culture
Translating writing in one’s ancestral language
Raising children to know where they come from
The doubts of the writing life
How to see your weaknesses as your greatest gifts
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the collection of poems Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways, as well as the poetry collections Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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