Cascadia Poetry Lab podcast, June 2026. Joel O'Connor chats to Zach Charles
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Cascadia Poetics Lab's podcast is a vibrant global journey charting the fierce, brilliant, and breathtaking edge of contemporary ecological poetry.
‘Locust looks at the contrast between tenderness and human kindness, and the contradiction in fascism of fear. It touches on the dangers of power in the hands of a single person.’
Zach Charles, podcaster and poet, Cascadia Poetry Lab, Seattle
Cascadia Poetry Lab podcast, June 2026
Full podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDKOSLm4CBU
Key Timestamps:
2:06 — Start of the grasshopper-to-locust transformation discussion
6:40 —The metaphor and cycles of political extremism
10:30 —Discussion on collective madness (Ibizazi), groupthink and political moods
34:00 — Historical parallels (colonization, indigenous perspectives, sharing without loss)
44:55 — Joel reading of the opening of Locust
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