The Pain Of Leaving Two Places At Once feat. Mckendy Fils-Aimé

It's still National Poetry Month, for a few more days. What better way to celebrate than to be joined by poet with a debut collection dropping soon? Our guest today is Mckendy Fils-Aimé, author of the forthcoming Sipèstisyon from YesYesBooks. We talk influence and coming up in the slam world, and then Mckendy reads "Parkside & Ocean" by b ferguson as well as his own poem, "sipèstisyon." Oh, and there's some talk about the icons of 90s NBA. Order Sipèstisyon: https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/sip%C3%A8stisyon-by-mckendy-fils-aim%C3%A9 MCKENDY FILS-AIMÉ is a New England based Haitian American poet, organizer, and teaching artist. He has received fellowships from Callaloo, Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, CantoMundo, and Periplus. Over the span of nearly two decades, Mckendy has represented New England in several regional and national poetry slams, making numerous semi-final and final stage appearances. Mckendy’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Adroit, Muzzle, Obsidian, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. sipèstisyon (YesYes Books, 2026) is his debut poetry collection.