{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Interview with KB","description":"In this episode, I spoke with KB about their zine \u201cA New Relationship to Pain,\u201d their relationship to poetry, the pandemic, working as a poet and educator, and more. KB is from Stop Six, Fort Worth, Texas. They are a Black queer nonbinary poet, educator, student affairs professional, and lover of most plants\/people. They want to be your friend as well as your reminder to think in abundance. They have words published in Cincinnati Review, Puerto Del Sol, Palette Poetry, and other equally pretty places. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the 2020 Saguaro Poetry Prize and was written with support from workshops with Lambda Literary, In Surreal Life, The Watering Hole, The Hurston\/Wright Foundation, The Speakeasy Project, and Winter Tangerine. They are currently a 2021 PEN America Emerging Writers fellow and an African American Leadership Institute - Austin fellow. When not on stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Founding Executive Director of Interfaces, Co-Founder\/President of Embrace Austin, and educator in various settings. Follow them on Twitter or Instagram at @earthtokb and access their exclusive teaching, writing, and other content at patreon.com\/earthtokb. They live in Austin, TX where they\u2019re writing books & trying their best. KB\u2019s Zine \u201ca new relationship to pain\u201d KB\u2019s Instagram KB\u2019s Twitter Poets, books, etc. mentioned in this episode: Jericho Brown\u2019s The Tradition Taylor Byas's poetry  George Abraham\u2019s "ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine\u201d (second poem on this page) Justin Phillip Reed\u2019s "Leaves of Grass" Claudia Delfina Cardona\u2019s \u201cWhat Remains" Khalypso\u2019s \u201cYou Really Seem to Think I\u2019ll Miss You\u201d The Sound of Waves Breaking is \u201cDesertTexasT01\u201d by Riabad Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz ","author_name":"Waves Breaking","author_url":"http:\/\/wavesbreaking.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"