Broadsides

The following is an edited transcription of a longer Zoom conversation, which is available in-full below. Kindig reads his poem “The Problem of Survival” from 7:39–8:40. Tell us about your relationship to writing. This is a big, big question, so I’ll try to do it justice… I’m trained in several different kinds . . .

Tell us about your relationship to writing. I did not always want to be a writer. As a young person I only really encountered writing through school, so I understood it as a scholastic/academic activity. AKA, boring. I have always read, however. To this day I feel that books are the closest . . .

Poetry and ritual event at 10 Forward (now Last Ditch) in 2022, author’s own collection. A little over two weeks ago, the small town where I live—Greenfield, Massachusetts—made national news. The Boston Globe had caught wind of community conflict at our local lesbian bar, Last Ditch, and was airing it out to . . .