These updates aren’t necessarily related; there’s just a lot happening in my life right now. First off, I just made the pre-order live for the new Guante & Katrah-Quey album, “Post-Post-Race.” If you preorder it, you get an instant download of my FAVORITE new song from the project: “Our Relationship is a Slowly Gentrifying Neighborhood” featuring the incredible Jayanthi Kyle!
Post-Post-Race by Guante & Katrah-Quey
This would normally be a separate post because getting a poem up on Button’s channel is a pretty big deal, but like I said, these are tumultuous times so I’m just going to put this here. They got footage of my poem “Small Talk” from Sierra DeMulder’s book release show. This is a very personal poem I wrote about art, identity, and profound introversion.
If you missed it, I have ANOTHER new poem up at my own channel, brand new footage of “The Invisible Backpacker of Privilege,” which is a great introduction to the themes explored on the new album.
Finally, a reminder that the Be Heard MN Youth Poetry Slam series is heading into semifinals this month— 3/5 at the Loft Literary Center, and 3/12 at the MacPhail Center for Music. Finals are coming up too– 3/26 at the Walker Art Center. All three of these shows are going to be amazing; I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: these young artists (all between 13 and 19) are mind-bogglingly talented, and deserve our support!
