Ep. 13: Jose Hernandez Diaz

For the first episode of season two of The Personhood Project, host Aaron Tyler Hand, sits down with poet and educator Jose Hernandez Diaz. Diaz discusses his 2020 chapbook The Fire Easter, as well as his forthcoming full-length collection Bad Mexican, Bad American. The two then discuss the accessibility of prose poetry for new writers and how far poetry has evolved since John Donne. Diaz shares the importance of sharing and uplifting the immigrant story and the ways he honors his family through his poetry. He also shares tips for using poetry to turn the lemons handed to us in life into lemonade. Oh and they talk about sneaking into HomeTown Buffet! haha

You can find our writing prompts and the incarcerated writers' poems HERE.