MINDS ON FIRE: Conduit poets read their Conduit poems. Our field recording team finds the writers in their natural habitats, e.g., beside waterfalls and on dark rainy sidewalks. Sometimes the poets record themselves alone in their rooms.
Oni Buchanan is a poet, a pianist and an evolutionist. It has been said that she "is able to speak from a place closer to the dangerous heart of evolution than anyone has ever attempted." Her award-winning first book What Animal proves it. Now this virtuosa turns her attention to kinetic poems, mandrakes and devolution. With the formidable and indispensable assistance of Betsy Stone Mazzoleni, Oni Buchanan gives us her three-part mandrake revolution. Brace yourself.
Dieter M. Gräf was born in 1960 in Ludwigshafen, Germany and lives in Cologne. He has published three books of poetry, Rauchstudie: Vater + Son, Triebender Kopf, and Westrand. Andrew Shields is a translator and poet living in Switzerland. Hear the poems that appear both in Westrand and our very own Conduit #15 read in German and English by Gräf and Shields respectively.