Curated Conversation(s): Andrés N. Ordorica & Christopher Soto

UK poet Andrés N. Ordorica and US poet Christopher Soto come together for a transatlantic discussion of their work. Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show is a virtual discussion series pairing Latinx poets from the United  Kingdom and United States for a deep dive into their poetry.

Register on The Writer's Center website to be notified when this episode  premieres! You’ll receive an email with instructions for viewing the  video. After the premiere, you can find all the videos here.

____________________________________________________

Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in  Edinburgh. His writing maps the journey of his diasporic experience and  unpacks what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá. He has been  published widely including The Guardian, The Acentos Review, The Skinny,  Gutter, Poetry Unbound and Bella Caledonia. His writing has been  shortlisted for The Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year, the  Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour and the Mo Siewcharran  Prize. He is the author of the poetry collection At Least This I Know (404 Ink).

Christopher Soto (b. 1991) is a poet based in Los Angeles, California. His debut poetry collection, Diaries of a Terrorist, was  published by Copper Canyon Press. This collection demands the abolition  of policing and human caging. In 2022, he was honored with Them’s Now Award in Literature for representing the cutting edge of queer  culture. He was also honored as part of Out100, which celebrates the  year’s most impactful and influential LGBTQ+ people. Boston Globe named his debut one of the best books of 2022.