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LISTEN: Monique Gabrielle Salazar On Nostalgia And The Smell Of Ghosts

Laura Spencer
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KCUR
Monique Gabrielle Salazar

Monique Gabrielle Salazar is a writer, artist and musician. A member of the Latino Writers Collective, she’s also a self-described “collector of nostalgia.”

Here, she reads four poems in a series:

Salazar recently released her first solo EP called Devil’s Pool. She also writes for the website Squeezebox KC and is at work on her first novel, set in a future Kansas City where prohibition is back and so is mob rule.

All of our WORD readings, including bonus tracks by some poets, are archived on SoundCloud.

Laura Spencer is staff writer/editor at the Kansas City Public Library and a former arts reporter at KCUR.
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