PEN America Emerging Voices Podcast Episode 011 Rocío Carlos

PEN America

2003 Emerging Voices Fellow, poet, teacher, and community activist Rocío Carlos teaches us how to make a zine, and talks about taking attendance, getting caught in the ditch, and growing up haunted in Los Angeles. ** Rocío Carlos attends from the land of the chaparral. Born and raised in Los Ángeles, she is widely acknowledged to have zero short term memory but knows the names of trees. She is the author of (the other house) (The Accomplices/ Civil Coping Mechanisms), Attendance (The Operating System) and A Universal History of Infamy: Those of This America (LACMA/Golden Spike Press). Her poems have appeared in Chaparral, Angel City Review, The Spiral Orb, and Cultural Weekly. She collaborates as a partner at Wirecutter Collective and is a teacher of the language arts. Her favorite trees are the olmo (elm)and aliso (sycamore)and you can find her on the socials @ninabruja7