Ep 61: Poetry

 

Today’s episode is on poetry with Khairani Barokka, an Indonesian disabled writer, poet, and artist based in the UK. I’m not all that knowledgeable about poetry and Khairani helped me understand that poetry is all around us and that there’s something for everyone. Khairani will recite one of her poems and talk about her experiences as a co-editor for the anthology, Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, published by Nine Arches Press.

Transcript

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Related Links

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson. (2019). Slingshot. Nightboat Books.

Khadijah Queen and Jillian Weise. (May 19, 2019). Make No Apologies for Yourself. The New York Times.

Khadijah Queen and Jillian Weise. (June 15, 2019). We Will Not Be Exorcised. The New York Times.

Ilya Kaminsky. (2019). Deaf Republic. Graywolf Press.

Jillian Weise. (2019). Cyborg Detective. BOA Editions.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. (2019). Tonguebreaker. Arsenal Pulp Press.

Meg Day and Niki Herd. (2019). Laura Hershey: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Pleiades Press.

About

 

Khairani Barokka is a writer, poet, and artist whose work has been presented extensively, in fifteen countries. Okka is the recipient of seven residencies and multiple grants. Among her honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow and is a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change for arts practice and research. Okka is creator of works for the stage such as Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee, and most recently co-editor of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches), author-illustrator of Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), and author of debut collection Rope (Nine Arches Press). Work is published in Poetry Review, The Rialto, Ambit, Magma, The New Inquiry, Asymptote, and other journals, anthologies and art books. She is a PhD by practice researcher in Goldsmiths’ Visual Cultures Department and Modern Poetry in Translation’s Inaugural Poet In Residence.

Website: http://www.khairanibarokka.com/

Twitter: @mailbykite

Debut poetry collection Rope:

http://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/rope.html

Poetry-art book Indigenous Species:

http://www.tiltedaxispress.com/indigenous-species/

Annah: Nomenclature at the ICA

https://www.ica.art/on/live/khairani-barokka-annah-nomenclature

Selected Annahs at SALTS Basel

http://www.salts.ch/#/en/exhibition/bhanu-kapil-khairani-barokka

 

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Credits

Alice Wong, Writer, Audio Producer, Host

Cheryl Green, Text Transcript

Lateef McLeod, Introduction

Mike Mort, Artwork

Theme Music (used with permission of artist)

Song: “Hard Out Here for A Gimp”

Album: NO BIG DEAL

Artist: Wheelchair Sports Camp

Music

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Sounds

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