Award-winning Teenage Poet Laureate Isabella Ramirez’s Passion is Contagious and Speaks to the Poets in All of Us.

For the first time, Cristina is interviewing an award-winning, nationally-recognized teenage poet laureate, Isabella Ramírez — which is perfect, because this young CATALINA podcaster/journalist is a big poetry fan. Say, “Emily Dickinson,” and the iconic poet’s “I Am Nobody” may just be recited on the spot. Meeting and interviewing Isabella for this episode answers so many questions Cristina has for a poet laureate, like: 1. “How does someone just become a poet?” ... and 2. “Does an award-winning high school poet have to be angry or happy?” ... and 3. “What’s a poetry ‘chapbook’?” For your viewing pleasure (and more inspiration) the podcaster and the poet laureate, Cristina and Isabella, can be found as the two student presenters invited to speak for Palm Beach County School Districts in-line “9th annual Hispanic/Latino Virtual Summer 2021 Institute,” organized by Patricia Trejo. So this podcast just had to happen. The two student presenters had/have heard about each other, but one of the country’s largest school Districts helped make this podcast possible. Just in time for catalina magazine’s “passionate” issue. Oh yeah, did we mention there’s lots of passion and advice from Isabella for the poet in all of us?