Okay, I'm warning you. You're going to have to adjust the band on your thinking cap. Christian Bok, our first guest, is an experimental poet with some fascinating ideas, some of which will strike you as unfamiliar and maybe dissimilar to any other ideas you ever heard. In a nutshell, Bok is part of a small movement of thinkers and writers who want to revolutionize the way literature is produced, stored and consumed. For example, Bok has spent years trying to encode a poem into the DNA of a bacterium able to survive extreme conditions, like vacuums. In theory, if this works, his poem could survive beyond existence as we know it.
When your head stops spinning, Catholic analyst, Michael Sean Winter will give us his take on the recent Synod of Bishops, notable for an argument about gay Catholics and divorced Catholics in which a majority of those present roundly rejected the suggestion by Pope Francis that the Church welcome Catholics who are gay and remarried, instead of rejecting them for not following church doctrine. Lord, have mercy!
Lastly, this weekend's pumkinfest riots in Keene, New Hampshire.
What do you think? Comment below, email Colin@wnpr.org, or tweet @wnprcolin.
GUESTS:
- Christian Bok is the author of several books of poetry, including "Crystallography" and "Eunoia." He has created artificial languages for the television shows "Amazon" and "Earth: Final Conflict." He teaches at the University of Calgary. Follow him on twitter @christianbok
- Michael Sean Winters is a columnist for National Catholic Reporter
- Jared Goodell is a reporter with Cheshire TV in Keene, New Hampshire. Watch his interview with Ruth Sterling, organizer for Keene's annual pumpkinfest
SONGS:
- “Totenklage” (Hugo Ball) by Christian Bok
- "What the Hell is Going On" by Paul Thorn
- "Smash Your Pumpkin" by The Prisoners
