Season Two opens not with answers but with an invocation—an exploration of poetry as an act of liberation and remembrance.
What happens when language becomes both mirror and machete? When the poem insists that freedom is more than the absence of chains?
Honoring the legacy of the late Haitian poet Danielle Legros Georges and her haunting poem Makak, this episode journeys into the heart of what it means to reclaim space, preserve memory, and insist on being seen.
Joined by the luminous Dr. Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, we move through the intersections of history, memory, and creative resistance, tracing how poetry becomes both refuge and reckoning—a place where freedom is not a destination, but an ongoing demand.
Together, we ask how art helps us wrestle with what lingers after liberation. What does it mean to be free when the ghosts of empire, displacement, and erasure still haunt the margins of our stories? And what might it look like to imagine a freedom spacious enough to hold joy, tenderness, and transformation?
This conversation is as much an offering as it is an inquiry—a call to those living poetically, consciously, courageously. It reminds us that poetry is not only written on the page, but lived in the choices we make, the silences we break, and the worlds we dare to rebuild.
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