“Survival depends on falling in love with the world as it is, not as it was.”
—CA Conrad
Pod-Head: Elee Kraljii Gardiner
This pod will play with rhythms, sounds, vibrations, words, verses, and body movements as a way of connecting with a broad concept of ecopoetics and ecological support. Guided in part by ideas from poet CA Conrad’s Resurrect Extinct Vibration somatic poetry rituals, we will think about modes that might move language beyond words into patterns of communication with humans and the more-than-human.
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is a writer, editor, and creative mentor living in Vancouver, Canada. She is a frequent collaborator with choreographers, musicians, and visual artists and currently exploring sound and sonics in her role as Vancouver’s seventh poet laureate. She is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head, which investigates the experience of stroke, and serpentine loop, which considers gender and physicality through the idea of ice. She is also editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with John Asfour. Elee co-directs The Whole Cloth reading series with Dr. Bronwen Tate, at Green College at University of British Columbia, an experiment in deep listening where a poet reads an entire book of poems from start to finish. She directs Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, a program pairing authors with mentors. eleekg.com
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