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While I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Florida this past month, I met Guisell Gomez, a student of creative writing and a published poet. Born in Colombia, she and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She remembers the move, the brutal act of being torn out of your own culture to live in another one.

I have been on the lookout for students of creative writing, some who will be our future poets and novelists and memoirists–if they’re not already! And Guisell was a wonderful find.

I love it when we old folks can learn from our young ones.

Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Professor of Creative Writing, Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Professor of Creative Writing, Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles och inte av, eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.

The Writing Bull: a Podcast For Fearless Writers

The Exiled Poet: Guisell Gomez

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