81. Comfort Media w/ Brandi Bird

Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 6:58 p.m.

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Brandi Bird stops by the virtual studio to talk about their debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh. Andrew relates their obsession with Mary Oliver to Brandi\'s work. It\'s a great time!

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Brandi Bird\\xa0is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and M\\xe9tis writer and editor from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. Bird\\u2019s poems have been published in\\xa0Catapult,\\xa0The Puritan,\\xa0Room Magazine, and others. They are a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia, but their heart is always yearning for the prairies.

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Andrew French\\xa0is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks,\\xa0Poems for Different Yous\\xa0(Rose Garden Press, 2021) and\\xa0Do Not Discard Ashes\\xa0(845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

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