{"id":1627,"date":"2016-03-08T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heart-beats.ca\/HDB\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:44:42","slug":"ultralight-beam-kim-katrin-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heart-beats.ca\/HDB\/ultralight-beam-kim-katrin-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultralight Beam: Kim Katrin Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kim<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos and interview by Vivek Shraya.<\/em><\/p>\n

A few years ago, after finishing an event in Hamilton with Elisha Lim and Kim Katrin Milan, we shared a\u00a0riveting drive back to Toronto. We gossiped, we vented and we revelled in each other’s company. When we reached Kim’s place and she left the car, I said out loud, “There goes the light of the world.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Kim is indeed a light, a beacon. Years prior, after hearing her\u00a0read\u00a0her writing to a packed room in at the Gladstone Hotel, I left feeling a greater commitment to my own writing. This is Kim’s gift. She ignites. What is almost as incredible as witnessing her speak is watching a crowd as she speaks\u2014the voracious head nodding and snapping, and the deep sighs and the tears\u2014it’s like watching fire spread.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to her brilliance.<\/span><\/p>\n