José Antonio Rodríguez Reads Naomi Shihab Nye

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Photograph by Mark Roemisch / Courtesy José A. Rodríguez

José Antonio Rodríguez joins Kevin Young to read “World of the future, we thirsted,” by Naomi Shihab Nye, and his own poem “Tender.” Rodríguez is a poet, memoirist, and translator whose honors include a Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and a Discovery Award from the Writers’ League of Texas. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.