S8 E17: Hannah Tool talks to Rocio Franco

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Hannah Tool chats with Rocio Franco, a self-identified Chicana warrior poet from Chicago, about poetry as a way to tell the truth, her experience as a nontraditional, working-class poet, and how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu helps remind her that in poetry, and in life, “you can get up and continue doing it.” Rocio reads Diane Seuss’s “My Education” and a selection of poems from her debut chapbook Where the Monarchs Never Die, which won the 2025 Arcana Poetry Press Chapbook Contest. You can connect with Rocio on Instagram at @chio_la_chingona and on her website, rociofranco.com, and buy her chapbook Where the Monarchs Never Die from Arcana Poetry press or wherever good books are sold.

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Hannah Tool chats with Rocio Franco, a self-identified Chicana warrior poet from Chicago, about poetry as a way to tell the truth, her experience as a nontraditional, working-class poet, and how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu helps remind her that in poetry,...

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