The working class districts of Havana shaped my outlook - Nancy Morejón

For me, writing a poem means enormous enjoyment that reaches its culmination when the poem appears in print.

one of its [society's] most sinister creatures: the practice of racial discrimination, a lever that always heightens racial prejudice. Both creatures make up racism.

We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contemporary and more pertinent.