Jennifer is joined by Cecily Nicholson, a critically-acclaimed poet to discuss her path of purpose through social action and and poetics. An advocate of mental health, prison abolitionism, and a meticulous researcher Cecily shows us how to be generous observers of the micro-everyday and its ever present connection to systems and histories of marginalization. As a compassionate community worker, she highlights the tensions of our choices on the inner and outer path of social change and the possibilities of emergence when we don’t fix on a limited sense of self or time. In this episode she shares creative practices and guidance to help us stay engaged with what we love while decentering ourselves.
Cecily Nicholson teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and is the author of Wayside Sang which won the 2018 Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Poetry. She’s the author of Triage and From the Poplars, which received the 2015 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her upcoming book Harrowings, on Black ruralities will be published in the fall of 2022.
To learn more about Cecily, her poetry and readings visit here.
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