With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I)
By Aisha Sasha John
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part I)
On Halloween afternoon 2014, Mat Laporte and Paloma came to my house, sat on my daybed, and we laughed so loud, fair listeners, that this podcast might hurt your ears a little (sorry/not sorry). I spoke to these cool cats about a goodness they are involved in: The Contemporary Poetry Group, a weekly occasion of fellowship and study in which on a Wednesday afternoon peeps gather to read aloud an entire work of contemporary poetry.
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Aisha Sasha John is a dance improviser and poet. She was born in Montreal, but spent most of her childhood in Vancouver, and currently lives in Toronto. John has a BA in African Studies and Semiotics from the University of Toronto and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her first book, The Shining Material, was published by BookThug in 2011. Her new collection is THOU (BookThug 2014). Follow John at http://www.aishasashajohn.tumblr.com.
