In this exclusive interview with CBC's Eleanor Wachtel, 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize international winner Douglas Kearney delves into how hip-hop and Black vernacular traditions have shaped his poetry, the impact of growing up with a "constant overlapping of languages" in Altadena, California, the joy of creating the page as a stage, his lifelong ambition to be a werewolf, and more! Kearney encourages us to consider the pleasure of reading his "performative typography" poems out loud: "I'm very excited when I hear people say 'I feel like I have to read it aloud,' because that, to me, is like, 'Yes! Yes! You play it. Here is the sheet music. You play it!'"
Learn more about Douglas Kearney and Sho (Wave Books), his Griffin-winning collection, here: [ Ссылка ]
