We were so pleased to virtually welcome our friends Anne Waldman and CAConrad for a conversation around poetic practice, activism, and spiritual existence on June 4, 2021. CA interviewed Anne with questions offered from other poets and artists influenced by her life and work, including Hoa Nguyen, Raquel Salas Rivera, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Thurston Moore, Callie Gardner, and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs.
1st RIBOCA talk, dedicated to the glossary word ENDINGS.
Introduction and Questions by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, RIBOCA2 Chief Curator, and Sofia Lemos, Associate Curator of RIBOCA2 Public Programmes. Subtitles available in English, Latvian and Russian.
The award-winning American poet CAConrad here shares the moving story of how, following the brutal murder of his boyfriend and the subsequent indifference of the police, writing poetry conceived from rituals became healing: “I believed that I could do a ritual for poems, that could drag me out of that depression.”