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Turning up the Heat

Originally Published: April 04, 2007

Kwame,
Hey. Let me run an idea by you and see if you're game. I'm really loving your posts. I find them so well-written and so full of feeling, fascinating, really. But so often, I feel like they're coming from some totally other place. We're both poets here on this blog, but we could be living on different planets. So, I'm curious if you'd like to directly engage in a public discourse on the blog about the different -- yet same -- world(s) that we live in. I'm not interested in being hostile or rude; I'm not interested in convincing the other that one way is better than another, nor to prove the superiority of either approach -- such efforts would be futile. Rather, I'm interested in opening up a constructive dialogue with you, exploring how and why, historically, personally, broadly, narrowly -- in any conceivable way -- we've ended up where we are.
You see, I never get to engage directly in a constructive discourse with anyone other than my peers, who feel identically to the way I do, thus I feel we have a rare opportunity to speak directly to each other and to large issues that, I think, impact our respective communities as well as each other. It could be wildly interesting and beneficial for all. And it'd surely be a first for me.
You game?
Warmly,
Kenneth

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