So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.