Episode Notes Lucy introduces the podcast and gives you a peak of episodes to come. Episode Transcript 0:00: Hello, everyone. 0:03: I hope that you're all doing awesome wherever you are and having a great day or night or afternoon, whatever time it is. 0:13: I guess I'm not sure what time it is, where you are and it might not necessarily be early afternoon, for me it's that time, which is why I say that. 0:25: But regardless, I hope you're having a great, great time of day. 0:29: Welcome. 0:30: This is the first episode of Untethered Lines, the podcast where we talk about radical poetry and its intersections with activism. 0:41: I'm really happy that you decided to listen to this podcast today, Before we dive into the thick contents of this podcast, I wanted to first make a little introduction to just introduce you guys a little bit to myself and so you can end the podcast, so you can get to know. 1:02: , get to know things before we get started and get to know what you're going to experience. 1:09: My name is Lucy Carpenter, and I am your host of this podcast. 1:16: I hope you're inferring my, I have an excited tone right now because I'm really freaking excited for this podcast. 1:25: it's been a project getting ready for this and a lot of work from a lot of people, and I'm so happy that I'm finally getting started. 1:33: A lot of people have been involved in helping out, so yeah, and I'm really looking forward to it, And just happy to be talking to you guys right now for the release of this show. 1:43: so yeah, without further ado. 1:46: I'll jump more into it. 1:48: This podcast about poetry and poetry has had a constant place in my brain, basically since the time I was coherent and conscious enough to understand human language, poetry has been something that I've loved. 2:04: I started reading poetry as a kid in short stories, and storybooks that were more poetics or like like your classic like The Giving Tree. 2:15: Shared it for everybody of that and like you know classic Canadian children's poetry stuff. 2:19: I'm from Toronto, so Canadian and grew up with lots of good Canadian kids literature and I really, really loved it, I found as a kid I really enjoyed the nature of like the rhyming pattern to be like very satisfying to my brain and it also just had this awesome like super emotional component and compelling nature that just like it drew me in from the beginning and then throughout my preteen and teenage years I Got got even more into and I and then got so into I started I decided I wanted to start writing it and needed an outlet. 3:03: Because I was a kid who was very like anxious and overthought a lot and my dad wrote and he said, you should write start writing, so I started writing. 3:12: So shout out Dad, he got me writing and I like to like the poetry seemed like the most the easiest, so I started with that and it served as a real outlet throughout my teenage years. 3:25: I was writing it helped me get through puberty, a lot of like difficult times and periods of my life where. 3:32: Things were messy, friendship drama and. 3:37: Just growing up, it, and it helped a lot and so I continued writing and throughout, since I've been an adult, I've still been writing, and I took a little bit of a break because it felt I got kind of writer's block and stopped writing for a bit, but now I'm writing again. 3:57: So it's really exciting. 3:59: so yeah, it's poetry has always had a big role in my life, whether it was reading it or speaking it, it's been very important to me, but my heart hasn't only isn't only in poetry, I've also, it's also has another place for social justice movements, And from the time I was a kid, I have been participating. 4:22: And being involved in social justice movements, starting out as a kid, And I like more start with more performative ones I'll admit that have been now called that as problematic. 4:37: A lot of non nonprofits that I initiatives and yeah, like helping helping women and girls get access to education and did some stuff with organizations who are little bit kind of white savory. 4:53: at the time, I did not know that though and when I found out. 4:57: I immediately was like, what the hell? 5:00: No, I don't want to support these guys. 5:01: So I, I moved on to more ethical organizations that align more with my values, and today I continue to be involved in a lot of social justice movements, big on feminist movements. 5:16: I'm involved in queer rights, decolonial work and movements and the Palestinian. 5:23: And the global global self liberation movements, solidarity movements, yeah, and it's, it's been a had a big role in my my life and one of my favorite intersections in social justice has been in forms of activism has been artful forms. 5:42: Of activism as a creative person I've always appreciated artistic movements then that were directed with a good cause and specifically last semester I'm a student at McGill I took an intro to performance class by Doctor Johnson, amazing prof and super amazing class and in the class we explored a lot of poetry and. 6:10: That was revolving around social movements went out of the norms and wasn't afraid to push the limits. 6:17: And one of the artists we spent a lot of time looking at was Zoe Leonard. 6:21: , for those of you don't know, Zoe Leonard is, a great poet. 6:27: She wrote a lot, of radical poetry and she was a feminist too. 6:33: One of her poems being, I want a president, which we read, and it was kind of a call out campaign against, in 1992, she wrote, in collaboration with Eileen Miles against President Bush's, just repressive. 6:50: Govern in that poem really inspired me and just got me thinking constantly about how. 6:57: , in radical spaces, how much, how like much positive things that can contribute, and has the capacity to contribute. 7:09: poetry is a powerful art form. 7:11: It's broad and it's often critical, even when we don't even read, read that directly in the lines. 7:20: , it's an excellent form of, yeah, just free speech and yeah, there's a lot of criticism of Repressive movements. 7:35: so, yeah, that's what I was just thinking about all of that and that got me thinking we needed this. 7:42: but also it wasn't just from that, I think also just with the state of the world and There being so much right wing rhetoric and fascism ruling the world, especially in, yeah, the global North, there are so so much of free speech is we're witnessing is being repressed right now and also so many creative outlets are being repressed and they are putting, are being regulated. 8:17: So, I thought that it felt more, no more pressing than now to make this podcast, And create a podcast space where artists could talk about their work freely, and we could have, yeah, some advice for using work and change manicking ways. 8:40: Just a really awesome space of open. 8:44: Critical reflections. 8:47: Yeah, so I think it's going to be a super awesome time. 8:51: , I also, I think before we wrap up, it's also important, that I give a shout out to CKUT, that is, this is where this project is happening. 9:07: , I am doing an internship here in the spoken word department. 9:13: And Yeah, they deserve all the show notes. 9:18: Also, I don't know what I'm doing entirely, This is the first time I've made a podcast in my life, by far the biggest media project I've done. 9:32: so things likely might be a little bit rocky. 9:36: yeah, and please be understanding and Yeah, of that, if the mic, if the audio sounds a little bit funky or, Yeah, the timing is off or I'm pausing. 9:53: I'm new at this, so, yeah, please be supportive. 9:57: We're in this together and yeah, just bear with me. 10:01: it's gonna be a little rocky, but Run it together and. 10:05: We're going to embark on this journey together and hopefully things will get better episode by episode. 10:11: But you'll also, regardless, be getting to listen to some awesome poets, and gain some perspective on how you can use your own work or art. 10:25: In critical ways, in activist movements. 10:29: So, yeah, it's gonna be really awesome. 10:32: so yeah, there'll be episodes coming out soon, Those will be posted shortly in the CKUT website. 10:41: View under podcast, you'll see, and just look up, if you look up untethered lines. 10:47: Episodes will be there, and there's also going to be in I'm starting an Instagram. 10:53: You can follow the podcast at untethered lines. 10:58: On Instagram. 10:59: and yeah, hopefully, also episodes will be on Spotify. 11:03: So, just look out for that and look into the Instagram to see updates about, where the podcast postings and all the links will be there. 11:14: And yeah, those will be coming out very shortly, so stay tuned for those and get ready because it's going to be an awesome time. 11:26: yeah, I'm your host, Lucy Carpenter, and thanks for tuning into the podcast. 11:33: I'm so happy that you're listening to this and hopefully you're looking forward to it. 11:38: Yeah, I will. 11:40: This is untethered lines and I'll see you around next time.
