"With poets Christopher Soto and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, author of the 2020 memoir Children of the Land, Zamora cofounded the Undocupoets, a 'group fighting to end citizenship-based discrimination in poetry publishing and contests.' The trio drafted a petition urging literary organizations to scrap their requirement for proof of citizenship or residency."
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"I try to develop a vision of the poem as a crystalline structure, to see the points, often images or nouns, in the structure, to see the energies, sometimes prepositional, sometimes sonic, sometimes emotional, that travel between and among these points in the text, and to consider the way the light of our attention might play on and activate the multifarious connections."
