Episode 18: Kai Coggin

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Kai Coggin is a Filipina American poet/writer with a newly released full-length poetry collection entitled "Incandescent" by Sibling Rivalry Press. Listen to us discuss how she came into poetry, the importance of her teachings, her amazing encounter and longstanding friendship with famed Chicana writer, Sandra Cisneros, and how she didn't know she submitted her first poetry submission to my literary & art online magazine, "The Manila Envelope", five years ago, among the many other "parallels" we have. She also reads a poem from "Incandescent" and explains the premise of it.

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Incandescent

everything in me is a volcano everything in me is a blazing new sun everything in me is a conflagration of words everything in me is a color that makes up wildfire everything in me is a phoenix wing ablaze everything in me is a heart’s inferno everything in me is a lucent moon glowing growing giving off light light light in whatever form I can incandescent means emitting light as a result of being heated and isn’t everything heated and isn’t everything shamefully ablaze and isn’t everything burning before us and isn’t the whole wide world turning to ash can we still find the light in all that is being lost can we still project a vision that leads humanity forward can we still search out beauty in the rubble can we still shine amidst the trouble can we name ourselves luminous and believe it we must we do if you recognize this is how you move through life you are incandescent, too