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 22: Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor
Episode 21: Monica Macansantos
Episode 20: Gregory Byrd
Episode 19: Casey Clague
Episode 17: Huda Al-Marashi
Episode 16: Alonso Véner
Episode 15: Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr.
Episode 14: Marivi Soliven
Episode 13: Gregory Phillips
Episode 12: Floyd K. Takeuchi
Episode 11: Aileen Cassinetto and Ivy Alvarez
Episode 10: Jo Reyes-Boitel
Episode 9: Peter J. Crowley
Episode 8: Yvonne Neth
Episode 7: Kristy Bowen
Episode 6: Tony Robles
Episode 5: Luisa A. Igloria
Episode 4: Ire'ne Lara Silva
Episode 3: Barbara Jane Reyes
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