National Poetry Month Day 24: Kamden Hilliard
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Join NOW!Celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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...moreThe more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
...morePoet Kamden Hilliard is the subject of this week’s Saturday Interview. Jellyfish Magazine editor Gale Thompson talks to Hilliard about sexual violence, the “colonized” body, and his love for James Baldwin. Hilliard’s chapbook, Distress Tolerance, looks at these ideas closely. He argues that “survival is not always cute, politically responsible, mature, or sober. Survival is ramshackle, […]
...moreSurvival is not always cute, politically responsible, mature, or sober. Survival is ramshackle, as is tolerance.
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