We've been taught to feel uncomfortable about aging. Think about it: anti-aging is a $34B industry. But writer and artist Sandra Cisneros argues that aging is awesome. Nely talked to Sandra about why we should embrace aging on the most perfect occasion, her birthday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm

Writer Sandra Cisneros has been making sense of the world on the page since 1984’s The House on Mango Street. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we wanted to replay our 2022 conversation with the beloved poet. We discuss her first poetry collection in 28 years, Woman Without Shame (4:40), why she chooses to write ‘da

Celebrated author Sandra Cisneros has published her first poetry collection in 28 years. Titled Woman Without Shame, the collection includes poetry both in English and in Spanish, and is a chronicle of her life as an artist. Cisneros joins us to discuss. A New Poetry Collection from Sandra Cisneros

Zibby is joined by literary icon Sandra Cisneros to talk about her latest book, Martita, I Remember You, which she actually began writing in the early 1990s. The two talk about what made Sandra move forward with publishing this story now, why she feels the need to share as many stories as she can "with the time she has

The House on Mango Street by Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros has been taught in high schools across the U.S. for decades. A poetic writer of many genres, she’s received a MacArthur “genius grant,” a National Medal of Arts, and many other accolades. Cisneros grew up in an immigrant household where it was assumed