{"id":2348,"date":"2021-08-22T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2021-08-19T01:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T01:16:49","slug":"poets-abdi-mahad-and-louise-k-waakaaigan-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/2021\/08\/22\/poets-abdi-mahad-and-louise-k-waakaaigan-in-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets Abdi Mahad and Louise K. Waakaa\u2019igan in Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-15bdbeb6-a985-436d-86ac-6c446b62e58d\">This August, Lyricality Founder\/Director Tracy Rittmueller is pleased to present Lyricality\u2019s \u201cRead Poetry 2021\u201d chosen author, Louise K. Waakaa\u2019igan along with the guest poets who graced us with their presence at \u201can Evening with Louise K. Waakaa\u2019igan\u201d on April 8, 2021. Please enjoy this video series offering a deep-dive into Louise\u2019s poetry, in conversation with 6 of Minnesota\u2019s wonderful poets&#8211;3 nationally known poets from the Twin Cities metroplex and 3 accomplished Somali-American poets from Saint Cloud.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Louise K. Waakaa&#039;igan and Abdi Mahad | Lyricality\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UTuLhkcdnm8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-b6aabc43-b5bc-4b7a-8bdc-4c67081e7eeb\">About Abdi Mahad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this conversation, Lyricality\u2019s \u201cRead Poetry 2020\u201d poet Abdi Mahad reads his translation of \u201cWithin\u201d in Somali by Louise K. Waakaa\u2019igan and responds with her poem \u201cWithin.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdi Mahad was born in Somalia and began writing poetry when he was 14 years old. He is an editor, English instructor and translator, who wants to tell of the beauty of Somalia before the war happened. Many people might not know that Somalia is known as a nation of poets, because it is a side of Somalia rarely seen. So often, Somalia&#8217;s war drowns out the poetry. But here Abdi Mahad&#8217;s poetry is an agent for healing, sharing and connecting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louise says of Abdi&#8217;s poetry contribution: When reading and\/or sharing the poetry of one\u2019s life with a circle of writers and lovers of words, I am taught the value of honest communication. Honest in a way where one will reveal the inner workings of their heart and their experience. We are all on this journey called life. And, inside these moments of shared experience, we enlighten ourselves to a greater truth. We are all related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-f1d87ccd-2cd8-47d2-93db-fd6d15b6de8e\"><strong>About <em>THIS IS WHERE <\/em>and Louise K. Waakaa\u2019igan<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This August (2021), \u200b\u200b<em>This Is Where, <\/em>guides a series of video conversations on Sunday Morning Lyricality as we celebrate Louise K. Waakaa\u2019igan, an Anishanabekwe poet enrolled at La Courte Ordielles Reservation in northern Wisconsin. Her poems courageously face hard truths, revealing the sorrows of complicated families and historical trauma. Her poems bring beauty to the world through their painstaking attention to the craft of writing, with empathy and kindness.&nbsp;<br><em>This Is Where<\/em> brings to us a gift in this naming and acceptance of contradiction. Aren\u2019t we all searching for wholeness in a fragmented, polarized world? By holding the broken and the healing, the miraculous and the pitiful tenderly together,<em> <\/em>by facing ambiguities and contradictions, <em>This Is Where <\/em>shows us that while there are no shortcuts to healing and reconciliation, and although the work is hard, Love is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWithin\u201d appears in <strong><em>This is Where<\/em><\/strong> by Louise K. Waakaa\u2019igan (Willow Books, 2020). 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