And so, you know, I think it's, it's important what you said about when you read the work not being able to do that distancing thing, because like, what, you know, why should you read it, and then it's distant, you know, what I mean? Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the Recipient of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry, 905 W. Main St. Ste 18-B If I want to be sad, If I want to be sad, I can be sad. So we are going to be playing a game called Fast Punch. I was just thinking about poems about mythology aren't typically the ones that draw me in, because I think I'm already expecting this very familiar story. And that's if I share anything that I write, it's an order to continue that and to pour back into what I feel like is this infinite well that I draw from, which is, which is love. And I would, I would want to be understood on those terms. Search the history of over 806 billion 34. I have been reading this in fits and spurts because it's so deep. The, that's part of part of the irony, at least for me, it's like the best protective measures. So yeah, I love, I love hearing that. Best tea flavor. It was like, oh girl, you ain't going deep enough. There are so many opportunities in a given day, in a digitally mediated world, to appear to be something or somewhere we are not. What does it mean that I feel this way? Reading Gumbss books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." Hearing the way that you reference Audre Lorde I think is so beautiful to me. The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's, Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. I really mess with that. And I was like, Oh, okay. And this is something we ask everybody who comes onto our show. For poems, typically it is I might open with prayer, I cannot have anything that has lyrics in it, I cannot function as a human being. So then that makes me wonder best, what are the things that make up the ritual of writing or creating for you? Oh, wow. And, its poetry that is critical of academia. var hash = window.location.hash.substring(1); Here are some pieces of media to accompany your experience of the episode, and a writing prompt to tide you over until we meet again! And her words held space for me in that way. Like, what will, is there any end to this vastness of what grief and in particular in terms of my dad passing away; what does that mean? So if we had to engage with the work of three people of any genre, era, dead or alive, fictional or not, who would those three people be? It may not be redistributed or altered. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a writer who politicizes the archivenot the rarefied commodity within gated institutions, but the daily practice of documenting, inspiring, and engaging with Black feminist resistance. And I'm doing it for such personal reasons, but I don't share everything that I write, what I share, is because you're a part of that ceremony, and you're invited to it, and it's not, it's not something that is to be consumed. It also made me think of Ntozake Shonge saying that she writes for young women who don't exist yet, young girls who don't exist so that when they get here, therell be work waiting for them.
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