Leticia Hernández-Linares and Lee Herrick: November 19, 2015

After Steve Dickison's introduction, Leticia Hernandez-Linares reads "Mucha Muchacha." She performs a song leading into her poem "La Cuchillera," then "La Chuco," and "Tragedilandia" from her book Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. She remarks on raising her two sons in San Francisco's Mission District, and reads "What the Water Gave Me," incorporating a song.

Following an introduction by Steve Dickison, Lee Herrick reads "Repertoire" from an untitled manuscript. He then reads "My California," "Fire," "Beach Dreams," and "Why I Travel" from Gardening Secrets of the Dead. Herrick reads "A Thousand Saxophones" from This Many Miles From Desire and concludes with two new poems, "Truths" and "The house is quiet except..."

Hernandez-Linares and Herrick discuss how music informs their poetry. The two poets remark on how the Mission District and Fresno, respectively, serve as sources of inspiration and resistance. Among other subjects, they discuss being parents, and the effects on their poetry and other work, and speak to their writing process, offering advice for young writers in response to questions from the audience.