{"id":11107,"date":"2024-11-21T12:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:19:01","slug":"francis-xavier-mukiibi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2024\/11\/21\/francis-xavier-mukiibi\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis-Xavier Mukiibi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Describe yourself in 3 words\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Way too relaxed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What inspires you?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The people who haven\u2019t lost their sense of play and have fun in their craft\/day-to-day \u2013 it\u2019s something I remind myself to go back to all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us about your worst ever gig?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My first public poetry performance was UniSlam in 2017. I had no issue memorising my pieces in practice beforehand, but on the day, I blanked midway through the piece, and it completely threw me off for the rest of that round. We finished in last place, and it took me more than a year afterwards to attempt performance off-book (which I blanked again midway)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s your number one poetry pet peeve?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is more of an open mic thing. I don\u2019t mind preambles if they\u2019re done in a way that serves the piece\/the audience where the poem wouldn\u2019t by itself. I\u2019ve seen occasions where a preamble feels longer than the poem, or over-contextualises the poem – to the point where the impact of the piece doesn\u2019t hit as much as it could have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whose words do you love at the moment?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Too many poets to single out at the moment – although I read a lot of Out-Spoken Press books over the summer which I particularly enjoyed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find myself going back to the Inflo-produced musicians a lot, at least every other day. So Little Simz, Cleo Sol, Michael Kiwanuka, Sault, that genre of artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a common one, but everyone progresses at a different pace, and progression isn\u2019t a linear timeline either. You\u2019ll be thankful that you ended up where you did, and you won\u2019t care how long or which route you had to take to get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you could do someone else\u2019s job for a day, who would it be?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A recent one would probably be Noah Lyles, he\u2019s just the right level of villain – it was a special night on social media when he won the 100m this summer! Historically, I\u2019d love to have been prime Michael Jordan for a day, including all his side hustles.<\/p>\n\n\n