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.
Erin McKeownI learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
Erin McKeownI 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.
Erin McKeownIt's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
Erin McKeown