Spareness, economy, and distillation are often put forth as obvious virtues in poetry. But what if there were a politics undergirding this aesthetic preference? In today&#8217;s conversation with poet Megan Fernandes we look at questions of poetics and aesthetics in relation to capitalism and colonialism and how a messier, more unruly poetics can trouble borders and boundaries—of self, of nation, of species. We talk about questions of home and belonging, community and solidarity, how we might create kinship across difference both on the page and in one&#8217;s life, creating a sense of shared living through a poetics of diaspora and dislocation. We also talk about time and how to live, love and create art within an ongoing crisis. Personal, poetical and geopolitical, this is a conversation not to miss.
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