In this episode, we chat with mónica teresa ortiz, author of book of provocations, the inaugural winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize for Poetry. mónica teresa ortiz (they / them) is a poet, memory worker, and critic born, raised, and based in Texas. In this conversation, we talk about the origins of mónica’s radical poetry, and how their work has evolved since we published their chapbook autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist in 2019.