Kai Coggin is a Filipina American poet/writer with a newly released full-length poetry collection entitled "Incandescent" by Sibling Rivalry Press. Listen to us discuss how she came into poetry, the importance of her teachings, her amazing encounter and longstanding friendship with famed Chicana writer, Sandra Cisneros, and how she didn't know she submitted her first poetry submission to my literary & art online magazine, "The Manila Envelope", five years ago, among the many other "parallels" we have. She also reads a poem from "Incandescent" and explains the premise of it.
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Incandescent
everything in me is a volcano
everything in me is a blazing new sun
everything in me is a conflagration of words
everything in me is a color that makes up wildfire
everything in me is a phoenix wing ablaze
everything in me is a heart’s inferno
everything in me is a lucent moon
glowing
growing
giving off light
light
light
in whatever form
I can
incandescent
means
emitting light as a result of being heated
and isn’t everything heated
and isn’t everything shamefully ablaze
and isn’t everything burning before us
and isn’t the whole wide world turning to ash
can we still find the light in all that is being lost
can we still project a vision that leads humanity forward
can we still search out beauty in the rubble
can we still shine amidst the trouble
can we name ourselves luminous
and believe it
we must
we do
if you recognize this is how you move through life
you are incandescent, too
Episode 62: Lee Matthew Goldberg
Episode 61: John Compton
Episode 60: Clinnesha D. Sibley
Episode 59: Dominique M. Carson
Episode 58: Angela M. Brommel
Episode 57: Gay Majure Wilson
Episode 56: Susana H. Case
Episode 55: Anne Marie Wells
Episode 54: Jason Tanamor
Episode 53: Anya Ow
Episode 52: Pam Peacock
Episode 51: Ina Cariño
Episode 50: Tony Robles (Part 2)
Episode 49: Beverly Parayno
Episode 48: John A. Vanek
Episode 47: Nick Carbó
Episode 46: Courtney LeBlanc
Episode 45: Ron Riekki
Episode 44: Frederick-Douglass Knowles II
Episode 43: Suzanne Frischkorn
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