Imogen Arate with Aaron El Sabrout

Poets and Muses: We chat with poets about their inspirations

This week, Aaron (https://aaronelsabrout.myportfolio.com) and I (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/) discuss our respective poems “Wildfire" and “Embers," and destruction as renewal. You can read Aaron's poem at: https://ko-fi.com/post/Wildfire-N4N756XVY You can also get in touch with Aaron at 1. Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/@toreachpoise 2. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreachpoise/ 3. https://twitter.com/toreachpoise Picture of Aaron El Sabrout by Jay Havens (https://www.jayhavens.me). Links to the topics we touched on: 1. Link between fireworks and gunpowder: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fireworks/anat_nf.html 2. The Quraysh tribe: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100359630 and https://www.britannica.com/topic/Quraysh 3. When a Senator brought a snowball to “disprove” climate change: https://time.com/3725994/inhofe-snowball-climate/ 4. Prisoners as firefighters: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2020/11/11/california-wildfires-raged-incarcerated-exploited-labor-column/6249201002/ and https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-04/why-is-it-hard-former-prisoners-become-firefighters-california #Poetrypodcasts #PoetsandMuses #ImogenArate #AaronElSabrout #Wildfire #Embers #DestructionbeforeRenewal #EgyptianAmerican #TransgenderMan #SomenosTerritory #VancouverIsland #poet #ComicArtist #LegalPolicyResearchAdvocateforLGBTQPrisoners #COVIDoutbreakinprisons #NecessityforPrisonReform #writingpoetryascopingmechanism #writingasaprocessofdiscovery #writingasaprocessofselfexamination #highschool #WallaceStevens #ThirteenWaysofLookingataBlackbird #InfluencedbySlamPoetry #NorthAfrican #ArabicPoetryTradition #Poetryrecitation #SpokenWordvsOnthePage #rapbattles #culturalcontext #RosewaterIsCleansing #herbalism #naturalprocesses #composting #recycling #Dinétah #controlburns #NewMexicoPublicRegulationCommissionHearing #StateofNewMexicoWildFirePolicy #ecologicalbigotry #forestmanagement #TheMushroomattheEndoftheWorld #AnnaLowenhauptTsing #Matsutakemushroom #TheSatanicVerses #SalmanRushdie #MuslimMythology #SaudiArabia #Mecca #QurayshTribe #KavanaughHearing #Cleansing #revolution #CapitolRiot #BlackLivesMatterProtests #SchooltoPrisonPipeline #PrisonLabor #disposablelabor #MutualAid