• Episode 17: Sons of Salt: A talk with poet Yaccaira Salvatierra

  • Nov 26 2024
  • Length: 30 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 17: Sons of Salt: A talk with poet Yaccaira Salvatierra

  • Summary

  • In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Tim Z. Hernandez speaks with poet Yaccaira Salvatierra. Yaccaira’s poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle among others. Her collection, Sons of Salt, was published with BOA Editions September 2024. She has been an organizer for the San Francisco International Flor y Canto Literary Festival and is currently translating Estancias de Emilia Tangoa, a poetry collection by Peruvian poet Ana Varela Tafur. Some of her translations can be found in About Place Journal and Plume. She lives in Oakland, California, where she is a dedicated educator.

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