PEN Out Loud: José Olivarez With Isaac Fitzgerald

Winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, José Olivarez joins PEN Out Loud to celebrate the release of his revolutionary poetry collection, Promises of Gold. Vulnerable and questioning, Olivarez, in English, and with a Spanish translation by David Ruano, tackles various forms of love—”self, brotherly, romantic, familial, and cultural,” while examining how it is “birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, and migration.” He is joined in conversation with New York Times-bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional, Isaac Fitzgerald.