1.5 - Poetry In Public With Maya Williams

In Episode 1.5, Chris sits down with Maya Williams to talk about the role of poetry in public life. How can we use art to have a positive impact on our communities? There's a reading from a Gwendolyn Brooks interview, and Chris and Brendan talk about why you should almost never ask someone in service industry job their name. Maya Williams (ey/em, they/them, and she/her) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently an Ashley Bryan Fellow and was selected as the seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine for a July 2021 to July 2024 term. Maya's debut poetry collection, Judas & Suicide, is available through Game Over Books (https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/judas-suicide) . Eir second poetry collection, Refused a Second Date, is available now through Harbor Editions (https://www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/refused-a-second-date). Maya's third poetry collection, a chapbook: What's So Wrong with a Pity Party Anyway? (https://gardenpartycollective.bigcartel.com/product/what-s-so-wrong-with-a-pity-party-anyway-by-maya-williams) , is available now via Garden Party Collective. For more Lazy & Entitled, check out these links: Read VINE: https://www.storiesfromvine.com/ Listen to B & The Shipwrecked Sailor: https://bandtheshipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com/album/weight-of-an-anchor Listen to B & The Nothingness: https://bandthenothingness.bandcamp.com/ Listen to Shipwrecked Sailor: https://shipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com/ Read the Shipwrecked Sailor blog: https://shipwreckedsailor.substack.com/