How Do We Cope in These Times? The Practice of Resistance

2025

Jun 10

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is a Venezuelan American poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection, Study of the Raft, won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in DMQ Review, The Hopper, About Place Journal, River Mouth Review, Verse Daily, and others. She has received support from The Poetry Foundation, VONA, Women Who Submit, and the Vermont Studio Center. Leonora is the Reviews Editor at Ecotheo Review and the Currents Editor at terrain.org.

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In this episode of The Poetry Lab Podcast, we meet new host Leonora Simonovis (Leo), who brings us into her world as a writer living in exile.

She reflects on how creative practice becomes a form of resistance and invites you to explore your own.

Through personal insight and gentle guidance, Leo models everyday acts of resilience and reminds us that showing up with intention is its own kind of power.