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Comp Lit PH.D. student, Raquel Salas-Rivera, featured in WHYY's Radio Times.
April 27, 2018
Philadelphia’s new Poet Laureate Raquel Salas-Rivera holds many identities — queer, non-binary, Puerto Rican, Philadelphian — and uses the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” Rivera sometimes reads their poetry first in Spanish, even when most of the people in their audience aren’t Spanish speakers. “I believe the discomfort can be a teaching movement,” they say.