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Wake, Butterfly: Here Is What I Did with My Body with Maggie Nelson
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:11:01
Publish Date: 2026-05-05 05:00:00
Description:

Maggie Nelson invites listeners to productively disassociate.

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Matsuo Bashō wrote:

Wake, butterfly— 
it's late, we've miles 
to go together.

Poetry magazine presents Wake, Butterfly, a series of intimate portraits that invite listeners to keep creating. The series is produced by Rachel James with sound design by Axel Kacoutié.

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Here’s an edited version of Maggie Nelson’s prompt:

Write on a piece of paper: “Here is what I did with my body one day:” and tell us an anecdote that the Roland Barthes passage “The Rib Chop” inspired in you from your own body and life. 

(You can read the text of the passage by expanding the transcript for the episode.)


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