Episode #324: All These Paths with Melida Rodas

What this episode covers

Some people seem to exist at the center of a community not because they’re chasing visibility, but because they keep showing up and doing the work. Melida Rodas is Jersey City’s Poet Laureate, the founder of the Jersey City Poetry Festival, a projection artist, former cruise director, paralegal, sailor, and mom — and in this conversation, she shares things she doesn’t usually talk about. We get into sailing through a storm on the Hudson, what the law taught her about poetry, going into the dark forest of memoir writing and finding your way back, and why she keeps choosing joy even when the creative work demands going to very difficult places.

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