[Unedited] Hanif Abdurraqib with Pádraig Ó Tuama
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I'm Reading Your Poems at Portrislam Events
i'm reading your poems at portrislam events. Was there something too, in the performance of the poems that you heard back yourself? Oh, yes. Because the audience is encouraged, rite the audience is encouraged to react in real time to their hearing. So some one heard something like, you know, a kind of affirmative, an affirmative shout, or a an affirmative hum these type things. And soo, you get a sense, in a way. If you read the same poem in enough rooms, you know, and you hear enough of those affirmative sounds coming at the same point in the poem, o get a sense for like, oh, i know what's working now....
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