This Is Just To Say: Emmy Pérez

KUT 90.5 | By Rebecca McInroy

Published May 21, 2018 at 4:55 PM CDT

Poet Emmy Pérez reads her poem "Green Light Go" and talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about living on the border as an act of resistance, the beauty of writing from anger, the healing power of the natural world and much more.

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