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K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in  2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic,  2007). The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South. She is originally from Kentucky and lives in Los Angeles. --- https://poets.org/poet/k-d-harryman https://karenharr...

K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, forthcoming in  2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic,  2007). The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South. She is originally from Kentucky and lives in Los Angeles. --- https://poets.org/poet/k-d-harryman https://karenharr...

David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney,  and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public  policy deal with emerging science and technology. He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide. --- http://davidkoepsell.com/ --- Interview conducted by Nikolai Taras and Ma...

David Richard Koepsell is an American author, philosopher, attorney,  and educator whose recent research focuses on how ethics and public  policy deal with emerging science and technology. He has been a practicing attorney, been employed as an ontologist, been a university professor, and has lectured worldwide. --- http://davidkoepsell.com/ --- Interview conducted by Nikolai Taras and Ma...

Omar Cadena, a first-generation born in the United States to Cuban  and Ecuadorian parents and a proud Chicago native, is the owner and chef  of Omarcitos Latin Café, located in the Logan Square neighborhood in  Chicago. Their mission is to give Chicago a chingón Latin Street  food experience where the vibe is perfect, the music hits right, and  people feel like la familia...

Omar Cadena, a first-generation born in the United States to Cuban  and Ecuadorian parents and a proud Chicago native, is the owner and chef  of Omarcitos Latin Café, located in the Logan Square neighborhood in  Chicago. Their mission is to give Chicago a chingón Latin Street  food experience where the vibe is perfect, the music hits right, and  people feel like la familia...

Sherri Shorting is an Anishinaabe singer and songwriter from the Little Saskatchewan First Nation, in Manitoba, Canada. Sherri's songwriting talent comes from her own life experiences and looking through the eyes of others. --- https://www.facebook.com/sherrishorting https://www.sakihiwe.ca/artist-directory/complete-directory/display,artist/232/sherri-shorting --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixe...

Sherri Shorting is an Anishinaabe singer and songwriter from the Little Saskatchewan First Nation, in Manitoba, Canada. Sherri's songwriting talent comes from her own life experiences and looking through the eyes of others. --- https://www.facebook.com/sherrishorting https://www.sakihiwe.ca/artist-directory/complete-directory/display,artist/232/sherri-shorting --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixe...

John Primer is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer  and guitarist who played behind Junior Wells in the house band at  Theresa’s Lounge and as a member of the bands of Willie Dixon, Muddy  Waters and Magic Slim before launching an award-winning career as a  front man, carrying forward the traditional Windy City sound into the  21st century. --- https://www....

John Primer is an American Chicago blues and electric blues singer  and guitarist who played behind Junior Wells in the house band at  Theresa’s Lounge and as a member of the bands of Willie Dixon, Muddy  Waters and Magic Slim before launching an award-winning career as a  front man, carrying forward the traditional Windy City sound into the  21st century. --- https://www....

Derek Wu, alias “Brother” Derek, is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter  whose most recent musical projects draw from a deep well of  genre-malleable tunes that are each more a roller coaster ride than a  straight shot, at times weird but always groovy. --- https://brotherderek.bandcamp.com/ --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker --- Radi...

Derek Wu, alias “Brother” Derek, is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter  whose most recent musical projects draw from a deep well of  genre-malleable tunes that are each more a roller coaster ride than a  straight shot, at times weird but always groovy. --- https://brotherderek.bandcamp.com/ --- Interview conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker --- Radi...

Anatoly Liberman is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet,  translator of poetry, and literary critic. Liberman is a professor in  the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of  Minnesota and publishes a blog, "The Oxford Etymologist". One of his  most recent books is “Take My Word For It; A Dictionary of English  Idioms” which explores the o...

Anatoly Liberman is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet,  translator of poetry, and literary critic. Liberman is a professor in  the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of  Minnesota and publishes a blog, "The Oxford Etymologist". One of his  most recent books is “Take My Word For It; A Dictionary of English  Idioms” which explores the o...

Carol C is the lead singer and co-founder of the popular electronic  soul band, Si*Sé. Already established in NYC’s music scene as a  globetrotting drum & bass DJ and party promoter since before the  band’s inception, the success of Si*Sé made Carol C’s vocals,  songwriting, and impeccable ear for production high in demand.  Collaborations with David Byrne, Thievery Co...

Christina Jarvis is a professor of English and Literature and a  passionate scholar and researcher of Kurt Vonnegut and his work. Her  most recent book, 'Lucky Mud', explores the late 20th century author's  relationship with science and the effects of climate change. Here, she discusses a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It  is set in Chicago, and its title is deri...

Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, educator, and  performer based in Oakland, California. Her mission is to create, and  help others create, poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and  the body to provoke meaningful dialogue and social change. 'Tiny Fires',  her play about scavengers living on a landfill in the Phillippines,  will have its world...

Jessica Pamonicutt is the Executive Chef & Owner of Ketapanen  Kitchen, Chicago’s first and only Native American Pop-Up Kitchen &  Catering Company which has recently started to operate daily at the  Field Museum of Chicago. As a chef, Jessica was trained at Le Cordon  Bleu School of Culinary Arts. She is an enrolled member of the Menominee  Indian Tribe of Wiscons...

Question for Sukrit Sen, a Heritage and Disaster Management  professional during the day and a musician by night, living in Kolkata,  West Bengal, India: “What song of yours do you feel like sharing with the world today?” --- Sukrit  Sen is a Heritage and Disaster Management professional during the day  and a musician by night, living in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has been...

Gasper Nali lives in Nkhata Bay, on the shores of Lake Malawi. His  song "Abale Ndikuwuzeni" which he performed live on his homemade  instrument called a "Babatoni" has become an internet sensation. The  '”Babatoni” is a 3-meter long one-string bass guitar which is all  homemade, and which Gasper plays with a beer bottle and a stick, while  singing and stomping a locally f...

Marie Bertineau is an American writer of creative nonfiction and fiction. She  is an indigenous author of Ojibwe-Anishinaabe and French  Canadian/Cornish descent and a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian  Community of the L’Anse Reservation. Her debut memoir “The Mason House”  (Lanternfish Press 2020) was named a 2021 Michigan Notable Book by the  Library of Michigan. Born a...

Tall Paul is a Native Hip Hop artist, public speaker, and workshop  facilitator from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is Anishinaabe and Oneida,  and his ancestral roots flow from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in  Northern Minnesota. Born and raised in South Minneapolis, Tall  Paul's music strongly reflects his inner-city upbringing. His most  recent album entitled “The Story of...

Nedra Darling is a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and a descendent of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. She  is a co-founder of an organization by the name of Bright Path Strong  and an executive producer of the forthcoming feature film 'Bright Path'  about Jim Thorpe, generally known as the first Native American to win an  Olympic Gold Medal. Nedra co-produced th...

Velma Kee Craig is a Diné (Navajo) poet, award-winning writer, director of short films, and a textile artist and weaver. She currently works as an assistant curator at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, and lives in nearby Mesa, Arizona. After  introducing herself in a traditional way in Navajo and English, she  discusses her creative process as part of her daily routine. --- https://...

Margaret Noodin is an American poet and Anishinaabemowin language teacher. She  is Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University  of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Margaret Noodin is the author of  'Gijigijigaaneshi Gikendaan' and 'Weweni', both collections of bilingual  poems in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) and English, and the editor of  www.ojibwe.net, an online...