Christen Lein

Feeling pensive and electrified by this performance by Saul Williams on Def Jam Poetry. His work here makes the value of art all the more clear. His discipline and research makes me want to learn history on a deeper level. And his insatiable confidence makes me lean in all the more.

I was in Salt Lake City, Utah for the 2011 Supermoon because I had a concert at the Vieve Gore Concert Hall, then was a guest artist for a few days at the University of Utah, courtesy of the graceful and incredible writer, Terry Tempest Williams. I didn’t see the Supermoon because it was cloudy [...]