Jun 5, 2019
Kai Coggin is a Filipina American poet/writer with a newly released full-length poetry collection entitled "Incandescent" by Sibling Rivalry Press. Listen to us discuss how she came into poetry, the importance of her teachings, her amazing encounter and longstanding friendship with famed Chicana writer, Sandra Cisneros, and how she didn't know she submitted her first poetry submission to my literary & art online magazine, "The Manila Envelope", five years ago, among the many other "parallels" we have. She also reads a poem from "Incandescent" and explains the premise of it.
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Incandescent
everything in me is a
volcano
everything in me is a blazing new
sun
everything in me is a conflagration
of words
everything in me is a color that
makes up wildfire
everything in me is a phoenix wing
ablaze
everything in me is a heart’s
inferno
everything in me is a lucent
moon
glowing
growing
giving off light
light
light
in whatever form
I can
incandescent
means
emitting light as a result of being
heated
and isn’t everything
heated
and isn’t everything shamefully
ablaze
and isn’t everything burning before
us
and isn’t the whole wide world
turning to ash
can we still find the light in all
that is being lost
can we still project a vision that
leads humanity forward
can we still search out beauty in
the rubble
can we still shine amidst the
trouble
can we name ourselves
luminous
and believe it
we must
we do
if you recognize this is how you
move through life
you are incandescent, too