Your Story Matters is a bi- weekly podcast with interviews with diverse authors,storytellers and trailblazers. This podcast is good for everyone looking to write their own story,aspiring writers,speakers and leaders looking to share their story with the world.
Your Story Matters
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Your Story Matters is a bi- weekly podcast with interviews with diverse authors,storytellers and trailblazers. This podcast is good for everyone looking to write their own story,aspiring writers,speakers and leaders looking to share their story with the world.
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July 9, 2022
Poesía en Español para el Corazón por: Davina Ferreira
<p><strong>En este episodio de Poesía para el Corazón y para el alma, la poetisa Colombo Americana, Davina Ferreira nos regala una nueva serie de poemas en Español, los cuales serán parte de una de sus nuevas colecciones de poesía. </strong></p> <p><strong>El año pasado, Ferreira recibió el premio Juan Felipe Herrera al mejor libro de poesía en Inglés como parte del Festival Internacional de Libros Latinos en Los Estados Unidos por su libro de poesía en Inglés: If Love Had A Name.</strong></p> <p><strong>In this new episode of Poesía para el Corazón Award Winning poet, Davina Ferreira gifts us a series of new poems in Spanish from one of her upcoming poetry books </strong></p> <p><strong>Last year, Ferreira received The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award by the Latino International Book Festival for her poetry collection in English: If Love Had A Name.</strong></p>
May 12, 2022
Poesía para el corazón #3 con Jesenia Chávez
<p><strong>As a Chicanita from a big Mexican family, I found great joy in reading and retreating into the pages of books. I remember my sisters and I walking to the tiny Maywood Library (now called the Maywood Cesar Chavez Library) in Southeast Los Angeles and checking books out. But the truth is that I had never seen myself, my family, or my experiences reflected in text until a mentor in high school gave me a copy of Sandra Cisneros’s </strong><strong>House on Mango Street</strong><strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong>Reading that book became a defining moment for me. For the first time, I finally felt seen and validated. Cisneros’s stories echoed through my mind and planted a seed of hope. I nurtured that seed in college by writing and reading books and poetry by women of color. I devoured every book I could get my hands on and often read for pleasure rather than the required reading for my courses. (Don’t worry, I still graduated.)</strong></p> <p><strong>When the pandemic began, I took up crocheting and gardening like most people. I then realized that there is no time like the present to make our dreams come true. To nurture those parts of ourselves that do not want to die, that do not want to shrivel up into hard rocks of bitterness. I realized </strong><strong>que si no ahora, entonces cuando?</strong><strong> The only person in my way was me. These poems were born out of a desire to share my stories and the words that keep me up at night. The words that burst out of me, accompany me on walks, and come to me through the voices of my beloved </strong><strong>familia.</strong><strong> They come as whispers, as shouts, and from the words that were never uttered by my departed loved ones. These words come from all the women’s voices who must stay silent to survive. They come from the little girl who dreams of seeing her name and words on the spine of a book in the library.</strong></p> <p><strong>The beauty is in the process, in the grays, the in-between that children of immigrants feel. The taste of English and Spanish on the tongue. Of hot dogs, tortillas, and weenie </strong><strong>con huevo,</strong><strong> too.</strong></p> <p><strong>These poems are an offering from my soul to yours, and I thank you for supporting a dream. I hope you are inspired, annoyed, amused, and most of all, I hope that you nurture your dreams. Through my collection, </strong><strong>This Poem Might Save You (Me),</strong><strong> I invite you to take a journey with me.</strong></p>
May 8, 2022
Poesía para el corazón #2 con Adrian Cepeda
<p><strong>Our Alegría Publishing LatinX poetas and writers share their Poesía. For this episode, we have invited </strong><strong>Adrian Ernesto </strong></p> <p>The author of Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attractions from Unsolicited Press, Between the Spine from Picture Show Press, La Belle Ajar & We Are the Ones Possessed from CLASH Books and Speaking con su Sombra with Alegría Publishing. He is currently finishing his sixth poetry book, the follow up to Sombra, the bilingual poetry collection La Lengua Inside Me. Adrian lives with his esposa in Los Angeles with their adorably spoiled cat Woody Gold.</p> <p>Since mi Mami passed away in 2017, Mother’s Day has been difficult for me. This year, I want to honor Mami and Mothers everywhere with a reading of some of my most personal poems and readers favorites from Speaking con su Sombra. Writing, reading, and sharing these poems has helped me with the process of grieving. These poems from Sombra is a living ode as I honor Mi Mami’s life, her passing, her inspiration, her guidance, and the gift of her legacy within the poems in this collection. On this Mother's Day as I remember the memoria of mi Mami, I am hoping these poemas can also honor those who have lost loved ones in their familias.</p> <p><br></p>
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