news | Sunday July 12, 2026
The award-winning poet Mercedes Eng, author of Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, my yt mama, and more was a guest on the radio program Wax Poetic to talk about her most recent poetry book, the 2025 City of Vancouver Book Award–finalist cop city swagger. Eng shares her poetry, discusses what inspired her to instrumentalize the language of institutions, government bodies, and venture capitalists to take aim at structural violence(s), the transcendent medicine of women activists working in community, and more. Listen to the full interview here.