Imogen Arate with Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Poets and Muses: We chat with poets about their inspirations

This week, Clementine (https://clementineburnley.com) and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "Ask Mrs Manners about Rroma children" and "MMIWG2020," and allyship. You can also connect with Clementine via 1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Decolonialheart 2. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewokila/ Check out this episode to also hear about virtual poetry events taking place during the week of May 3rd. Links to the topics we touch on: 1. The drowning of two Romani children that inspired Clementine’s poem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Cristina_and_Violetta_Djeordsevic and https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/21/italy.race 2. The Roma in Europe: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/04/roma-in-europe-11-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/ 3. Italian citizenship requirements: https://www.esteri.it/mae/en/servizi/italiani-all-estero/cittadinanza.html 4. “Poets speak out for refugees”: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/16/poets-speak-out-for-refugees- 5. Agitu Idea Gudeta, the successful Ethiopian goat farmer in Italy: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210401-the-ethiopian-who-saved-an-italian-goat-cheese 6. How red dresses became the symbol for MMIWG: https://www.jaimeblackartist.com/exhibitions/ and https://www.vogue.com/article/jaime-black-red-dress-project-missing-murdered-indigenous-women 7. WWII Indigenous Code Talkers: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indian-code-talkers 8. Lebanese legal loophole on rape: https://www.globalcitizen.org/fr/content/lebanon-rape-law-abolish-522/ 9. Fulani people: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fulani Photo provided by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley. #Poetrypodcasts #PoetsandMuses #ImogenArate #ClementineEwokoloBurnley #AskMrsMannersaboutRromachildren #MMIWG2020 #allyship #Artivism #ActiveinLast8Years #ProsePoetry #FlashFiction #experimentalworks #feminist #politicallyactive #movementbuilding #ExaminingHumanRelationships #Firstpoemage8 #PanAfricanPoem #MotherWasEnglishLitTeacher #ActivePolitician #easternNigeria #FulaniCulture #EmergenceofStatehood #AfricanIndependenceMovement #discriminationagainstRomanipeople #Roma #Romani #SilvioBerlusconi #ItalianRightWingGovernment #Populism #stateless #DemonizingMarginalizedGroups #theinnocenceofchildren #MassDeathintheMediterranean #FrontexDenyingRescue #thenamingofpeoples #Yoruba #minoritiesbeingracialized #ethnonationalism #naturalrights #WarsanShire #AgituIdeaGudeta #MMIWG #MMIWG2ST #JaimeBlack #TheREDressProject