Rochelle Spencer is author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). This fall, Rochelle will teach AfroSurrealism at Sarah Lawrence College and Fisk University. She tweets at @rochellespencer.
Poet Rich Villar discusses his activism, his admiration for Pablo Neruda, the importance of vernacular, and why love poetry may be the most political poetry of all.