Allison Hedge Coke is a writer, poet, musician, and activist, and her latest collection of poems is called "Streaming." On this edition of Words on a Wire, she explains how she employed the concept of streaming, and how it was inspired by the murmuration of migratory birds in flight. Her poems are also intrinsically musical, and that led her to team up with a group of musicians called Rd Klā for an improvisational blend of music and poetry. (The music is available for a free download through the month of December with purchase of the book "Streaming.") http://www.allisonhedgecoke.com/
For our Poem of the Week, Allison Hedge Coke reads "She Shakes Chilies from Her Hair." (View animation of the poem - read by a voice actor - at http://www.pixelfarm.com/work/motion-poems/).
Aired Dec. 6, 2015