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Kemi Alabi vs Divinity
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In today’s episode, Kemi Alabi talks about poetic practice, pleasure, and play as it presents in their collection Against Heaven, winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award (Graywolf, 2022). In this conversation, they discuss the relationship between the secular and profane, subverting and breaking language, and the importance of embracing grief and the emotional body.
Kemi will be reading at the Poetry Foundation on Dec 8th, 2022 – more info below!
132 episodes
Manage episode 347717081 series 2928382
In today’s episode, Kemi Alabi talks about poetic practice, pleasure, and play as it presents in their collection Against Heaven, winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award (Graywolf, 2022). In this conversation, they discuss the relationship between the secular and profane, subverting and breaking language, and the importance of embracing grief and the emotional body.
Kemi will be reading at the Poetry Foundation on Dec 8th, 2022 – more info below!
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