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Aria Kuunvaara

• Dec 14

In October 2024, I performed at Mine Clearance and Poetry, an event organized by a literary and cultural association. The theme brought together two rarely combined worlds.

I performed poems shaped by lived experience including work connected to Ukraine ut also few abstract ones. Writing these texts requires balance — carrying the weight of reality without turning it into spectacle.

The discussion following the performance confirmed something central to my writing practice: poetry can function as a way to process and communicate difficult realities in a form that remains accessible, grounded, and human.

This work reflects how I approach poetry more broadly — as a space where hardness and vulnerability coexist, and where real-world experience informs the text without overpowering it.