Duende Discussions
A fun and invigorating artist interview podcast where I talk to my brilliant friends about their personal and creative relationship with duende - the visceral vibration of the soul making impact with its most authentic, ancient self - made famous by Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca. My guests and I will explore how to define what the mysterious duende actually is, how to access it, what to do with our art once we've confronted it, wrestle with it - possibly in real time! - as well as decipher who/what has it today, and what role it plays in today's ever evolving and challenging artistic landscapes and vocabularies. Why duende today? Because like Lorca says, “The true struggle is with the duende.”
Duende Discussions
6 - KD Sims - The 'Sexy Grotesque', Embodied Longing and Muscular Channeling of Dark Matter Duende
My dearest, duende-iest duders! Happy spring! Happy flirty flowers, happy April showers, happy devouring of more sweet than sour during these stressful times <3 I’m rhyming (badly) because it’s the last day of National Poetry Month and my stunning-soul’d guest for this sixth episode is ingenious provocateur/ conjurer of the lyrical for the visceral - poet and writer KD Sims! KD not only inspires with her fearlessly full-bodied versifications, she arouses, playfully and intrepidly sparking a more sensual state of mind and just, being. So I wasn’t surprised that my warmhearted friend’s stimulating powers would deliciously spill over into our duende convo. We dig into how we created magic writing poems together over text, what she brilliantly calls the “sexy grotesque” nature of her smut poetry, the role of the body as a channeling instrument for duende, the eroticism of suggestion and ecstatic word divinations, the kindred-spirit building fun of our snowy playwriting retreat in Colorado, and the formative benefits of just jumping into the capital “M” Mystery of dark-matter duende.
We explore the duende possibilities within listener-submitted examples of duende words/lyrics/poetry, wade through the complexities and compromises of posting poetry to social media, and play a quick game of Poetry & Duende "This or That?" that turned into the podcast’s first ever rendition of “Hot or Not?” Lol
You guys, this convo with KD is like getting a tasty cup of coffee with a vibrant, funny genius pal. I hope it ignites a more robust interest in the invigorating properties of poetry today, cuz that’s what her luscious language mastery and energy did/does for me! So cheers to more savoring of Life’s flavors, tasty ones!
Follow her on Instagram at @her_perverse and keep an eye out for her first chapbook, published by Wet Press, coming out this summer.
Yours in sensual springtime revelations, Megan
https://wet-press.com/
Have a great duend-ay! :)
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