Hello friend!
Welcome back to Anonymous Grocer, a 30-day audio adventure in backwards poetry. Each day: a new poem, a new collection of words in unfamiliar and spiraling patterns, a new audio message to ease you into your day.
Today’s episode features the hard-of-hearing, Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky. As Russian invasions continue to menace through Ukraine, Kaminsky’s poem, ‘We Lived Happily During the War’ (which was published in 2013 during the first Maidan protests), has been shared widely once again as a symbol, a talisman of poetry’s tenacious power to rally people in times of crisis. A subversive siren, calling on us to confront who we are, where do our responsibilities lie, when will we rise up, how will we act?
Discover more about this poet here.
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Peace and love,
Cam
