In the sixth episode of Poet Talk, we’re joined by one of our favourite poets: Diana Khoi Nguyen.

Together, we explore swimming as both a poetic and life practice. A master class on the body's inherent abilities as well as the legacy of inherited sound, this episode dives deep into what it means to sculpt language like water.

What does learning to speak have to do with learning to swim? How does the sheet music of the body emerge from silence? And where, in poems, might the natural cadence of our language lead?

Tune in as we explore these questions and more.

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Notes

🌱 Resources on Indigenous Peoples in "Pittsburgh"

📗 Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen

📘 Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen

🎙️ Diana Khoi Nguyen vs Silence

📝 "Grief Logic" from Ghost Of

🎙️ Helena Bonham Carter reads Danusha Laméris' "Small Kindnesses"

💬 Proprioception

📒 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

📈Đổi Mới

🚼 Researchers find meaning in baby babbling

📝 Excerpt of "Đổi Mới" from Root Fractures

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