Through settings and symbols mundane and mythological, Matteo Cerilli presents two poems, Star Bright and Bathroom Chatter.

In this fifth episode of murmurstations, Sonia and Matteo discuss these poems with an eye on themes of mythologies of masculinity as well as growth, innocence, loss, discovery, (be)longing.

They discuss Matteo's activism roots and how they surface in his stories, the characters and causes he's interested in writing about, and the genres (like horror) that best allow him to do this.

Transcript

Read: Bathroom Chatter (Augur 5.2)

Read Star Bright (Augur 6.2)

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Host and Producer: Sonia Urlando

Special Thanks To:

Kerry C. Byrne

Lorna Antoniazzi

Martine Nguyen

Lois L.K. Chan

Cindy Ly

Eugénie Szwalek

Madeleine Vigneron

Helena Ramsaroop

Lily H

Artwork by:

Moccha ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mochii.mocha

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Music: In The Sun, by CrowanderAccessed by: https://freemusicarchive.org/