With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part V)
By Aisha Sasha John
With Mat Laporte and Paloma: About a Goodness (Part V)
Paloma left and Mat and I discuss how The Contemporary Poetry Group is a love action, and there's no better way to deal with evil than to make something good. We have the power. Also we talk poetry and death, death and posterity.
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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.