Poet Pedro Iniguez grew up watching fantasy and sci-fi movies with his dad. Afterwards, they’d have long conversations about the feats of engineering in these speculative futures: the architectural expertise involved in building space stations, and what it would take to generate the necessary jet propulsion to explore the outer limits of the galaxy.
As much as Iniguez loved these conversations, there was something missing from the stories he and his dad loved: Latinos.
And it’s this tension between what might be and what is that led him to write his latest poetry collection, "Mexicans on the Moon."
His work won a Bram Stoker Award for poetry — Iniguez is the first Mexican-American to win the award. He spoke more with The Show about his inspirations for the collection.
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