Oliver Baez Bendorf: Showing Up in Our Own Lives
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Oliver Baez Bendorf shares recordings of poets that encourage him to \\u201cshow up in [his] own life\\u201d through both their poetry and the way they themselves move through the world as thinkers, activists, and people. He celebrates Trish Salah\\u2019s intelligence and generosity of mind (\\u201cTiresias as Cuir (on the run)\\u201d), CAConrad\\u2019s expressiveness of voice and connection to the body (\\u201cI Hope I\\u2019m Loud When I\\u2019m Dead\\u201d), and Ching-In Chen\\u2019s call to reconsider histories (\\u201cdear story of a risk, 1878.\\u201d). Baez Bendorf closes by reading a poem written this summer, titled \\u201cMichigan,\\u201d inspired by the life and work of transgender activist Sylvia Rivera.\\xa0
Listen to the full recordings of Salah, CAConrad, and Chen reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Trish Salah (2017)
CAConrad (2014)
Ching-In Chen with the Thinking Its Presence Board (2017)