Urayoan Noel: Radical Imagination
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Urayo\\xe1n Noel introduces recordings of Ai engaging with war through necessary fury (\\u201cThe Root Eater\\u201d), Lehua M. Taitano composing a lifeline to communities living with the legacies of colonialism (\\u201cA Love Letter to the Chamoru People in the Twenty-first Century\\u201d), Ofelia Zepeda on the untranslatability of song (\\u201c\\xd1e\\xf1e'i Ha-\\u1e63a:gid / In the Midst of Songs\\u201d), and a fable of radical imagination by Gloria E. Anzald\\xfaa (\\u201cNepantla\\u201d). Noel ends the episode with his poem \\u201cMolecular Modular,\\u201d built around open-ended questions considering virality and modes of community.
Listen to the full recordings of Ai, Taitano, Zepeda, and Anzald\\xfaa reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Ai (1972)
Lehua M. Taitano with the board of Thinking Its Presence (2017)
Ofelia Zepeda (2015)
Gloria E. Anzald\\xfaa (1991)
Listen to a performance by Urayo\\xe1n Noel on Voca, presented as part of the Thinking Its Presence conference in 2017.
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