NomadicGround: Recent Episodes
Nomadic Ground
These are the voices of Nomadic Coffee: Farmers who grow Nomadic Coffee beans, Poets with poems in the bags, Employees of stores where Nomadic Coffee is sold, Workers/owners of Nomadic Coffee. And the founder of Nomadic goes for walks with a pushcart that unfolds to a table. He makes coffee, talks with people along his walks and records the conversations.
Kiran Bath is a poet and essayist from Brooklyn by way of Sydney. She is a 2019 Poets House Fellow, 2019 Tin House resident and has received fellowships and support from Vermont Studio Center, Brooklyn Poets, Winter Tangerine and Kundiman. Her work has been shortlisted for the Peach Gold in Poetry, long listed for the Palette Poetry Prize and nominated for the Best of The Net. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in wildness, The Adroit Journal, Lunch Ticket and elsewhere.
Randall J. Tyrone’s poems have appeared in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky and Oversound Poetry. He has received a summer scholarship from Tin House and a fellowship from the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. He has an MFA in poetry from the University of Wyoming. He’s very excited for you.
Rohini's poem '39 miles north of Los Angeles' is in the coffee out on shelves January 27th, 2020. www.nomadiccoffee.com
Rohini Kapil is an artist working with installation, image + text, drawing and experimental writing form. Exhibitions include an installation that explored [fantasized] a modernist architectural model: Proposal for a Temporary Balcony, Los Angeles, 2011. She recently exhibited images as large scale projections for two collaborative performance installations from two bodies of work: F is for the future of colour commissioned by ICA London, 2019 and A BAD LEISURE commissioned by London Contemporary Music Festival, 2019. She received an M.F.A. in photo and media from CalArts in 2011.
Bhanu's poem 'COMPLETE YOUR MORNING' went out to stores in coffee bags January 6th, 2020.
Bhanu Kapil is the author of six books of poetry, most recently How To Wash A Heart, forthcoming from Pavillion Poetry in 2020