Another joyful, deep dive into two poems. This time my guest is Elisa Albo, a local poet and professor. In this episode, Elisa picks the poem, Photograph of the Girl by Sharon Olds. Yael’s pick is The Last Thing by Ada Limón.

This episode’s guest, Elisa Albo is an award-winning professor of composition, literature, ESL, and creative writing at Broward College. A contributing editor of Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Harassment, Empowerment, and Healing, her poetry chapbooks are Passage to America, based on her family immigrant story, and Each Day More, a collection of elegies. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Alimentum, Bomb, Crab Orchard Review, Irresistible Appetites, MiPoesias, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Super Highway, SWWIM Every Day, Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents, and Vinegar and Char. Nominated in 2021 for a Best of the Net award, she is an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and co-produces the Seahawk Writing Conference at Broward College where she also teaches a food-themed film and literature course. Born in Havana, she lives with her family in Fort Lauderdale.

Each Bring a Poem’s host Yael Valencia Aldana is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Black Mestiza (University Press of Kentucky, 2025) and of the chapbook, Alien(s) (Bottlecap Press). She is the winner of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series Prize 2023 in poetry. She is a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and Craft Literary. She teaches creative writing at Florida International University and lives in South Florida with her son and too many pets. You can find her online at YaelAldana.com.