St. John pursued her passion for poetry at the University of Alberta, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She later moved to Calgary, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. These formative years not only honed her craft but also laid the groundwork for her future success as a poet.
Listen to J Dilla’s Donuts . Identify where the beat "breathes." Dilla was not consciously using St. John’s lexicon (he passed away before her major publications), but St. John argued that Dilla’s "time feel" was a vernacular mastery of her systems. Try to transcribe the snare hits in "Workinonit" using St. John’s color-gradient notation. cadence st john
St. John responded characteristically: by releasing a 47-minute drum solo titled Refutation (In 17/8) , in which she played every major Eastern European odd meter while overlaying a spoken-word defense of her work. The piece is now a rite of passage for percussion majors at Indiana University. These formative years not only honed her craft