28/02/2022
Beautiful words from LUMIN Journal 4 poet ! 🌹😢
Posted • february opened up with the best sort of mail, with ma intercepting the postman just as he was about to plop this into the mailbox in the morning ~ all the way from cardiff, wales - this fantastic, impossibly energetic, & incredibly designed publication: LUMIN's 4th issue, replete w/ such moving conversations around our material lives, histories told & untold, the biological minutiae of our daily work, colonial legacies & the sheer labour of trying to generate newer, more empathetic spaces & provisions for care for the generations to come at institutions ever less willing to do the work that might enable (at the very least) an interrogation of what passes for the everyday & the ordinary ○ loving making my way through every bit of poetry, art, writing, syllabi, speeches, interviews, fiction, essays, photographs, & everything else in this boundless compliation exploring the incongruity, absurdity, dissonance, & tensions we experience in every single aspect of our material lives & then asking - okay, well, what now? what next? ○ so utterly pleased, also, that my bby poem "floréal" has a place in this issue _ something about rituals, conjurings, tide pools, the present tense falling apart, refrigerators, ordinariness, & a piece of D5, Powell Hall to tie it all together. super thanks to editors & for showing my work far more care than i myself did in my submission draft & giving it two pages to sprawl over 🖤 do purchase a copy of the journal if you can! small presses are the best, most crucial instigator of what enables us, as individuals & communities & collectives (imagined or not; & temporary & amorphous, sure, but all the better for it, i think), to come together in a sense & be able to put out work that feels ~ new ~ & even, yeah, active (also SO COOL).
