Welcome to the official podcast of Inspired Word Café. Join hosts Shimshon Obadia and Emmett MacMillen as they sit down for intimate discussions with writers across the Canadian literary sphere. From household name novelists to your next favourite indie chapbook publishing poet, we’ve got it monthly, right here in your headphones at Inspired Word Café!
Season 2 Episode 8 - Arielle Twist's Poems of Magic and Memories
On our last episode of this season of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with Nehiyaw, Two-Spirit, author and multidisciplinary artist Arielle Twist to talk about her poems of magic and memories.
Find Arielle:
Arielletwist.com (http://arielletwist.com/)
Order Disintegrate/Dissociate from Indigo/Chapters (https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/disintegrate-dissociate/9781551527598-item.html?ikwid=Arielle+Twist&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0) or Amazon (https://www.amazon.ca/Disintegrate-Dissociate-Arielle-Twist/dp/1551527596/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536765256&sr=8-1&keywords=Arielle+twist) today!
Twitter (https://twitter.com/ArielleTwist) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/arielletwist/) | Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ArielleTwistWriter)
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com (http://www.inspiredwordcafe.com)
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org (http://www.syilx.org)
This podcast is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and in part by the City of Kelowna.
26 May 2022
Season 2 Episode 7 - Rita Wong's Writing in Activism
On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we sit down with poet-scholar Rita Wong to talk about writing in activism.
Find Rita:
Twitter: @rrrwong
Instagram: @mycorrizhalwong
Other links:
@1308trees on Twitter
https://raventrust.com/ (https://raventrust.com/)
Link to to Rita’s essay: https://rabble.ca/indigenous/stand-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-on-world-water-day-and-everyday/ (https://rabble.ca/indigenous/stand-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-on-world-water-day-and-everyday/)
Ashlee Cunsolo’s work with climate grief: https://ashleecunsolo.ca/2020/02/04/we-need-to-talk-about-our-ecological-grief/ (https://ashleecunsolo.ca/2020/02/04/we-need-to-talk-about-our-ecological-grief/)
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com (http://www.inspiredwordcafe.com)
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org (http://www.syilx.org)
This podcast is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and in part by the City of Kelowna.
28 Apr 2022
Season 2 Episode 6 - Joshua Whitehead's "A Geography of Queer Woundings"
On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we chat with acclaimed Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit author Joshua Whitehead about his forthcoming work "A Geography of Queer Woundings".
Find Joshua:
Twitter and Instagram: @jwhitehead204
Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com (http://www.inspiredwordcafe.com)
We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.org (http://www.syilx.org)
This podcast is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and in part by the City of Kelowna.
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