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Nicaraguan poet DAISY ZAMORA

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Published November 6, 1995 at 10:00 PM MST

2: Nicaraguan poet DAISY ZAMORA. She was born into a well-to-do, upper-middle class family. When she was four her father was arrested for his part in an attempted coup against the dictator Somoza. Later in adult life ZAMORA was part of the Sandinista Revolution. After going into exile in Honduras and Costa Rica, ZAMORA was announcer for the clandestine Radio Sandino. She'll talk with Terry about her work with the voice of the revolution. ZAMORA now teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua. ZAMORA's poems are published in a new collection The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA 415-362-1901).