Join us for the pilot episode of Poet Talk, a podcast where poets talk. In this episode, future cohosts Jody Chan and Sanna Wani delve into beginnings with questions like, "How does a poem begin?" and "What is the beginning of poetry?" Chan and Wani share some of their favourite poem beginnings, etymologies and more. From politics to gossip to lore, this epsiode is an introduction of what poetry means to us in community and in practice.

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Goodie Bag Alert! 🍭

Find all the things we mentioned in the episode below:

📗 Jody's books, sick and impact statement

📕 Sanna's book, My Grief, the Sun

📙 Where Things Touch by Bahar Orang

📘The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi

📓Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

📖 “The Poetic Analytic: A Conversation with Zaina Alsous” in Adroit Journal

🤡 "No poets!" meme

🎙️ VS podcast

💬 Etymology of the word "begin"

📝 Solmaz Sharif's poem "Look"
 
📝 Fatimah Asghar's poem "Kal"

💬 "Poetry" etymology in English

💬 "Poetry" etymology in Urdu

💬 "Poetry" etymology in Cantonese

📒 The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

📓 Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination by Amira Mittermaier

📔The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study by Stefano Harvey and Fred Moten

📖 “The End of White Supremacy, An American Romance” by Saidiya Hartman in BOMB

🎙️ Fatimah Asghar's episode on the VS podcast

📝 Sanna Wani's poem "Tomorrow is a Place"

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