{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Interview with Kamden Ishmael Hilliard","description":"Finally, after a long break, Waves Breaking returns with this interview with Kamden Ishmael Hilliard. Kam generously shares their time with me to discuss their debut book of poems, MissSettl, out last year with Nightboat Books. We go in deep to discuss their thoughts around the sentence, modes of speech, writing poems within this current era of late-stage capitalism, and teaching students. Kamden Ishmael Hilliard was born in La Jolla, CA; their fam settled on O'ahu, Hawai'i. Kamden holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Hawai'i at M\u0101noa and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Kamden, a nonbinary Black settler who goes by Kam, works on issues of surveillance, race, queerness, contemporary art and American politics. They're thankful for support from The National YoungArts Foundation, The Davidson Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, and The UCROSS Foundation. Kam\u2019s writing appears in West Branch, The Black Warrior Review, Tagvverk, Denver Quarterly, The Columbia Review, and other publications. &amp;nbsp; Formerly, they served as an AmeriCorps VISTA, held Maytag, Teaching-Writing, and Pfluflaught Fellowships at the University of Iowa, and were the 2020-2022 Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, a reader at Flypaper Lit, and a board member at VIDA: Women In Literary Arts.  Kamden's website Kamden's Instagram Go buy MissSettl! Mentioned in the interview:   Joyelle McSweeney   Jayson P. Smith   \u201cPoem About My Rights\u201d by June Jordan   bell hooks   Hoodie Allen (I\u2019m sorry lol)   Skee-Lo   Punahou School Hawaii   Iowa Writers Workshop and the Cold War   James Baldwin   Nene (bird)   The nene population is on the rebound from its endangered status     Beloved by Toni Morrison   Huge plug for everyone to listen to the audiobook version of Beloved read by Toni Morrison herself. Find it on Libby!     Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson   Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (film)   My poem with Judge Doom in it is \u201cAfter Saturn Ate His Own Kid\u201d at the bottom of this page.     West Side Story (film)   Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong   Kam\u2019s Anti-recommendations:   Apocalypse Now (film)   The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad   The Sandman (TV series)   This show's Editor and Social Media Manager is Mitchel Davidovitz.&amp;nbsp; The Sound of Waves Breaking is a clip of my cousin Ian and me (fake band name: Diminutive Denizens) doing a cover of \u201cDig My Grave\u201d by They Might Be Giants. It\u2019s on this cover album of Apollo 18 if you want to listen to the whole thing. There are a bunch of other covers you can listen to there for free, including a very dumb skit my friend Greg and I did for one of the \u201cFingertips.\u201d Greg\u2019s the host of the excellent podcast This Might Be a Podcast which I\u2019ve also guested on many times. Check it out! ","author_name":"Waves Breaking","author_url":"http:\/\/wavesbreaking.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/25831326\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/397ea9\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/25831326"}