This is Donnie Rose and you are tuned into Word Life, where we unpack the intersections of literary art, music, politics, and revolution.

Art imitates life. Life is often a series of rebellions that's diving to the messages inspired by the movements.

Life. Welcome to Word Life, the newest podcast of the North Star Media Group.

I came up with this idea to highlight the intersections of literary art, music, politics, and revolution from an organic place.

I've spent just over the last two decades of my life as a performance poet, a teaching artist, an event organizer, an advocate, and most recently as an editor.

Throughout that time, I have witnessed an impact revolutionary art both as an observer and a creator.

I've been able to bear witness to the power of words and messages that are on the surface, may have been maintained and detained but beneath the surface, function as a blueprint for change and encourage its audiences to use radical imagination to shape the world into what they wanted it to be.

Each week on Word Life, I will be looking at radical works of literary art and revolutionary music, unpacking the context and intent of the messaging.

Sometimes, I'll be joined in conversation by the creators of the work. Sometimes, I will be giving my best interpretation of what a certain piece of art was intended to get across or accomplish.

Either way, I hope the children join me in threading the intersection of art and mutating life and in discovering the lessons the creators meant for us to take from their offerings.

Thanks for tuning in to this week's episode of Word Life. Be sure to check us out next week for another episode and be sure to leave us a goal-star review.

Until then, peace, creativity, and revolution.