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

This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. 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. Today's we'll hear "Not Free From the Memory of Others: A Lecture on Joanne Elizabeth Kyger." This talk was originally given at Poets House on November 8, 2017.

Click here to read "The Wind at Night," an essay by Sigo 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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