Get to know the poet:

1) What is the theme of your poem?
This poem explores the simultaneity of speechlessness and the articulable in the wake of sudden trauma.

2) What motivated you to write this poem?
Writing is equivalent to breathing; in is an elemental feature of being this version of myself.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?
Since childhood, although it never occupied this central position before my stroke.

4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Jorie Graham, my favorite living poet.

5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
I am eager for my voice to be heard after almost 2 years of silence since my stroke.

6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I am a poet and craft poetry on a daily basis as a survival mechanism.

7) What is your passion in life?
I am passionate about language, about converting silence and suffering into a sacred ritual of music making.