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,…
…“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…
…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….
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…Taneum Bambrick (28:00): Yeah. Yeah. Literally.
…pride, be like, “oh, Trey is smart. Oh, he’s sitting in that corner, he’s writing.” Now, I might’ve been writing awful things about them, but I was writing.
…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.
…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…
…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…
…carry your gorgeous head around / in a sack,” he advises, “let it be / this beige plastic one.” Bibbins pulls such figures as Medusa, Andy Warhol, and Pat Robertson…
…back, a torn gut, a hole in your abdomen, an irritated stomach, a swollen gland, a growth, a fever, a cough, a hiccup, a sneeze, a bursting blood vessel in…
…Yeah, I know, absolutely. Me, too. Me, too.
…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,…
…red balloon, a phalanx of protestors, a quarrel, a militia, off camera, geared up, prepared to muster the musk of daily incivility, a roar of past coincidences, blood smell, men’s…