Keep the Channel Open
Making connections through conversation with the art, literature, and creative work that matters to us, and the people who make it. Hosted by writer and photographer Mike Sakasegawa, Keep the Channel Open is a series of in-depth and intimate conversations with artists, writers, and curators from acr… read more
From the Archive: José Olivarez
José Olivarez is a poet living and working in Chicago, Illinois, and is also co-host of one of my all-time favorite podcasts, The Poetry Gods. In our wide-ranging conversation we talked about how The Poetry Gods came to be, toxic masculinity in the poetry world, and how discovering poetry allowed José to find his artistic voice. In the second segment, we talked about beginnings and endings.
(This episode was originally released on February 15, 2017. Conversation recorded January 1, 2017.)
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Show Notes:- José Olivarez
- José Olivarez - Citizen Illegal
- José Olivarez - The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT
- “In Search of the Ecstatic” Workshop
- “Revision Is Writing” Workshop
- The Poetry Gods
- Jon Sands
- Aziza Barnes
- T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
- Louder Than a Bomb
- Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You
- José Olivarez - “I Walk Into the Ocean”
- Young Chicago Authors
- Urban Word NYC
- Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - “Searching for a New Kind of Optimism”
- Maria Popova - “Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves”
- Patricia Smith
- Gloria Anzaldúa - Borderlands
- Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America
- Keah Brown
- @_joseolivarez
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo
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