Poet Leslie Sainz

We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with 2021 NEA Literature Fellow andpoet Leslie Sainz who discusses her debut poetry collection, “Have You Been Long Enough at Table.”  Sainz reads from her collection and talks about its major themes including the ambiguity, displacement, and impact of cultural heritage as a daughter of Cuban immigrants. She discusses the variety of poetic forms used in her collection, allowing form to be guided by the emotional and thematic de