RUBEN QUESADA reads and discusses with host Lisa Grove his poem “After Oprah” from his collection Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press, 2011). A native of Los Angeles and a first-generation Costa Rican American, he is an editor for Queen Mob’s Teahouse. He has been a fellow and writer-in-residence at Red Lodge Clay Center, Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Canto Mundo. This video is part of a series, “A Poem By,” produced by www.Poetry.LA.