Rey M. Rodríguez

By Daniel Chacón,

Will Rose

Published October 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM MDT

In this episode, Daniel Chacón speaks with poet and attorney Rey M. Rodríguez about Todos Somos Sagrados / All Are Sacred, his poetry collection honoring the immigrant women of Proyecto Pastoral in Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights neighborhood. Drawing on decades of involvement with the organization and interviews with the women themselves, Rodríguez shares how their courage, faith, and humor helped transform a community—and his own understanding of love and grief. Their conversation explores poetry as a way of preserving overlooked histories, joy as an act of resistance, and the power of literature and art to build community across borders.

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For more information about Rey M. Rodríguez you can visit: https://reymrodriguez.com/books

Originally aired on October 4, 2026

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Daniel Chacón

Daniel Chacón’s collection of stories, Unending Rooms, was the 2007 winner of the Hudson Prize. He has also been awarded the American Book Award, the Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, and the Southwest Book Award. His first collection of stories, Chicano Chicanery was a finalist in the Patterson Fiction Prize and his novel and the shadows took him is available from Simon and Schuster. His new book is a collection of stories called Hotel Júarez: Stories, Rooms and Loops. He’s a professor of Fiction Writing, Kafka, and Latino/a literature in the Creative Writing Department at UTEP.

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Will Rose

Will Rose is a longtime technology and marketing executive based out of NYC and Texas. He is the co-founder of Words on a Wire’s publishing imprint, eRadical Books, and now spearheads marketing strategy for the Words on a Wire podcast. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer at the EdTech startup, Student Select, and as Head of Data Science at the artificial intelligence company, Harqen AI.

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