Welcome to the first episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo, beginning with today's talk: "Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation." Cedar Sigo’s lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.’ Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.’ He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. This talk was originally given at the Poetry Foundation, May 16, 2019.

Read a brief essay by Sigo, "Return to Graffiti Land," here on the BWLS blog.

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

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