I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
Erin McKeownI wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.
Erin McKeownIt's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
Erin McKeownLenelle 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.
Erin McKeown