草莓污视频导航

April 9, 2021

TIA House Talks: Videos & Podcasts Episode 19

Paul Meunier interviews Ian Kinney about their book "Air Salt".

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In this interview, Ian Kinney talks about their book Air Salt. The experience of falling from the seventh floor influenced Kinney鈥檚 trajectory of writing. This conversation with Paul Meunier explores the aspects of writing that Kinney uses to better narrate the traumatic event. They discuss issues of writing as resistance, activism, mental health and disabilities.

Ian Kinney (he/him, they/them) holds an MA in English from the 草莓污视频导航. Kinney plays with found text. In their debut book of poetry entitled, Air Salt : A Trauma M茅moire as a Result of the Fall (U of C Press), Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery from a seven story fall and uses poetry as part of his neuro-rehabilitation. This bisexual settler poet lives in Calgary, and occasionally cares for his family鈥檚 Kinnship House, a net-zero homestead on the Kainai territory between Lethbridge and Vulcan, Alberta.

Paul Meunier is currently an English Ph.D. candidate at the 草莓污视频导航. Paul鈥檚 poetry explores spaces between experimental form and subject representation, and his work has been published in N艒D Magazine, filling Station Magazine, The Anti-Languorous Project, and more. Paul鈥檚 SSHRC-funded dissertation, 鈥淢apping Poetics,鈥 navigates Calgary鈥檚 queer history through experimental poetry, exploring how atemporal crossings weave between past, present, and a poetics of queer futurity. Paul also studied photography at the Alberta College of Art + Design, now AUArts, back when chemical processing was still hip.

TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Joshua Whitehead, Mahmoud Ababneh, Paul Meunier, Aruna Srivastava, Marc Lynch, Marj Rugunda, and Ryan Stearne.

Stay tuned for the next episode of TIA House Talks. For more on the work of TIA House, including symposia, panels, and readings, please check out our website at www.tiahouse.ca. If you鈥檇 like to be in touch, send us an email at tiahouseyyc@gmail.com. Thank you for listening.

Our intro/outro music is 鈥淢onarch of the Streets鈥 by Loyalty Freak Music.

Episode 19: Paul Meunier interviews Ian Kinney about their book "Air Salt"

In this interview, Ian Kinney talks about their book Air Salt. The experience of falling from the seventh floor influenced Kinney鈥檚 trajectory of writing. This conversation with Paul Meunier explores the aspects of writing that Kinney uses to better narrate the traumatic event. They discuss issues of writing as resistance, activism, mental health and disabilities.