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Vincent Rendoni and Dion O’Reilly engage in a wide-ranging discussion of life and poetry. He reads Monica Rico’s  “Poem in Consideration of My Death” from an anthology that, due to its representation of Latino life, influenced Vincent’s decision to be a poet, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4, LatinNext. Vincent Antonio Rendoni is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife, which was the winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. Previously, he was a 2022 Jack Straw Cultural Center Fellow and winner of the 2021 Blue Earth Review Flash Fiction Contest. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. His work appears in The Sycamore Review, The Texas Review, The Quarterly West, Another Chicago Magazine, Sky Island Journal, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library.