MTI Radio the Podcast Episode 12 feat. Marlanda Dekine

Marlanda Dekine (she/they), b.1986, is the author of the poetry collection, Thresh & Hold, noted as a "stirring debut" by The New York Times. Celebrated in the Gramophone for her “intimate and epic perspectives” on American identity in Ars Poetica, she has received fellowships and awards, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission, a Governor’s Award from SC Humanities, a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, a Tin House Scholarship, and the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize from Hub City Press. Dekine has collaborated with artists of various mediums, including Tyree Daye (Poetry & Visual Art), Brittany J. Green (Composition), Douglas Boyce (Composition), L'Merchie Frazier (Visual Art), and Lisa Neher (Composition). Her poems have been published worldwide, including in Orion Magazine, Oxford American, and POETRY. Dekine owns {unnamed}, LLC, utilizing the arts to guide people, communities, and organizations to their deepest selves through intentional dialogue and designing transcendent programming. She is also the creator of i am from a punch & a kiss, SOUL: An Ancestor Workshop, and Speaking Down Barriers, a nonprofit for equity and justice. Dekine earned degrees from Furman University (BA in Psychology), the University of South Carolina (Master of Social Work), and Converse University (Master of Fine Arts in Poetry)Paris, mixed and recorded by Dwayne Mitchell @ventilatedmindThe Moon, first published in Shudashar Magazine, mixed and recorded by me, artwork by Cedric Umoja @umojaizm This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mtiradio.substack.com/subscribe