On this episode of the Kalamazoo Poetry Podcast, Denise and E.T. tell what’s occupying their present world, from new jobs to this post #metoo moment. Sit back and listen to words from their favorite poets, both the contemporary innovators and our poetry elders. Below is a list of actual footnotes for your researching and reading pleasure!

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Roses and Thorns

• Doing the work you are called to – Denise’s new post as ED of Out Front


• Healing Justice work – the long game of restorative justice
  
  
  
  • The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich
  
  
  • The Revolution Starts at Home
  
  
  
  

HotHotHot in Poetry

• Nayyirah Waheed
  
  
  
  • lands
  
  
  • weep
  
  
  • aretha
  
  
  
  


• Saeed Jones
  
  
  
  • Nina Simone’s Gun
  
  
  
  

Our Elders

• Adrienne Rich
  
  
  
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    On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

    
    
  
  
  
  


• Audre Lorde 
  
  
  
  • The transformation of Silence into Language and Action
  
  
  
  


• Lucille Clifton
  
  
  
  • Jasper, TX 1998
  
  
  
  

This episode is brought to you by the Kalamazoo Poetry Fest.

Music by Last Gasp Collective

Production by FREQ FLAG MEDIA