Line / Break | Season 3 with Forrest Gander
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The Line / Break season one finale features poet, activist, and educator Rachel McKibbens! Rachel joins our host, Laura Buccieri, for conversation about her days in a punk rock band,…
…certainly less possessive ideas of landscape until suddenly landscape became claimed, quote, unquote, by white settlers. And then it was like, well, no, this was our land and people fight…
…the water in their veins, they water the fertile land, and then they are food for the trees, oxygen in the lungs of other men, water again, in the combination…
…has one, I’m going to have one. So that’s been another big project is… Well, I mean, frankly, it’s finding space for the books, you know? I mean it’s a…
…long time with these, as you say, this incredible influx. Misinformation, disinformation, also earnestly felt, earnestly articulated best version of the truth information, but we watch it change, change, change….
…exercises, and do that for about 10 minutes, and then I’ll journal. And that’s, again, when I’m at my best self, I will journal and I will meditate, clear out…
…when it comes to poetry, I’d kind of say that, for me, at least everything can be traced back to that first moment of inspiration, kind of that first moment…
…“hope and courage.” That seemed to me, for some reason, they were linked, the need to go forward calls for hope, but it also calls for courage because we know…
…yourself, how others see you and about invisibility visibility, silence, knowledge, those kinds of things. So, yeah, I mean, I think, I think as a sort of a BIPOC writer…
…everyone, but I’m seeing Michael Jackson too, that what you’re saying, that kind of combination of, well, of gender norms in a way. Masculinity and femininity, but toughness and vulnerability….
…Except at first it might be a shy hug, half hug, but when my body hurts, thieving ache, low down, blue ache, fellow man, I mean, no, dude, I don’t…
…Taneum Bambrick (28:00): Yeah. Yeah. Literally.
…Yeah, I think for me, there’s a strong history of queers pushing against police violence. And so, to have these really freaky, kinky, queer sex poems in the middle of…
…line, “Great hatred, little room” has been a little tagline to describe the Irish predicament. Which is unfair, I think, because there’s great love, great beauty, great passion, great humor,…
…me, outrage. For me, outrage always leads to something simple, like something simple is not interesting to me. I mean, for me, outrage is rarely complex.
…complexity, like you’re saying, and this is maybe part of the formalism and what form can do or formalism can do, which is allow for these complex and somewhat ambiguous…
…there in your eventual arrondissement where you have more credible holography, more inspiring actual events, your ghazals composed of crow racket, retrorockets, your glaciers breaking, your discotheques wailing, probably, probably,…
…these seasons, hearing poems, talking about writing, books, life. It’s been one of the favorite things we do at the Press. So friends for season four, a format change.
…turned to that community, to the poets, to board members, et cetera, and just said, “Hey, this is the opportunity for your voice to be a part of the history…