8. "Yes, I am a Poet" with Crystal L. Kirkham

Hello Looking Glass Travellers, and welcome to the March 2022 episode, again so late we're well past the fashionable stage.

My guest this month was someone I talk to a lot. We've just never recorded it before. But she's only recently started claiming the title of poet for herself, and this is something I very much wanted to talk about, since that step, and the impostor syndrome standing between you and that step, is something a lot of people deal with at some point in their creative journey.

Links mentioned:

Crystal's website: https://www.crystallkirkham.com/
Crystal's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/canuckclick
And if you'd like to meet her gorgeous poodles, her TikTok is a fairly good option as well: https://www.tiktok.com/@canuckclick
Altered Reality Magazine, where her first piece, also known as the accidental poem, was published: https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/
Narrative Poetry, a discussion panel from Flights of Foundry 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J6uYsHgOVo&t=1s
The Ode Less Travelled, by Stephen Fry: https://books2read.com/u/3yKAke
A Mouthful of Air, a podcast discussing both contemporary and classical poems: https://amouthfulofair.fm/
Koji A. Dae's episode, where you'll also find links to her website and her work in the episode notes: https://anchor.fm/lookingglasspoets/episodes/2--Exploring-and-Reimagining-Archetypal-Stories-Through-Poetry-with-Koji-A--Dae-e12k4d5
Cislyn Smith's episode, where you'll also find links to her website and her work in the episode notes: https://anchor.fm/lookingglasspoets/episodes/1--The-Importance-of-Community-in-Fostering-and-Nurturing-your-Poetry-with-Cislyn-Smith-e12b8eo
And last but not least, at the time of posting, there's still time to register for Flights of Foundry 2022, and it is very much worth it: https://flights-of-foundry.org/

For full episode notes, and the prompt of the month, visit https://lookingglasspoets.wordpress.com/2022/03/22/crystal/.

Until next time,

Later, lookingglass travellers!

Theme music: Wonderland by Alexander Nakarada (serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License