Ciona Rouse (Poetry, Society, Art)

Poet and author (Vantablack, published in 2017 by Third Man Books), poetry editor (Wordpeace journal), co-host (forthcoming Third Man podcast Re/Verb with Kendra DeColo), sharing introvert, traveler, thinker, and more. Visit her website CionaRouse.com or find her on social media under the handle @ cionar. December 2018  /  2h 13m  /  Music by Brian Stone  /  LionSuit.com Some names and specifics we could not recall during our conversation: ● Matthew Stevenson is the young man who invited Derek Black (Stormfront) to Shabbat every week. ● John Lewis is the British company with the great holiday advert history. ● Krista Tippett's On Being guest was Anand Giridharadas, who says, "It’s language like the “win-win,” which sounds great, but in some deep way is actually about rich people saying, the only acceptable forms of social change are the forms of social change that also kick something back upstairs — language like “doing well by doing good,” which, again, is like, “The only conditions under which I’m willing to do good is under which I would also do well.”