Episode 2: How to Tear Your Achilles Tendon at Art Basel with Havi Green

Havi Green—poet, fiction writer, musician, community catalyst, subversive style icon—is like really creative. He blends his mediums seamlessly through deep introspection and bravado as he goes through life constantly learning and transforming. There’s always a wise word behind the magic of being Havi Green who has developed his artistic vision through the intersection of mysticism, consciousness, and identity.

Now, he’s currently focusing on perfecting his first novel through relentless revisions, an undertaking he started several years ago and has led to the genesis of a super intense writers group where he welcomes the “harshest critiques.”

We talk about how he ripped his Achilles tendon at Art Basel, listening to audiobooks to help with rhythmic writing, the most vulnerable time to write a poem, being a sensitive boy, Moby Dick being one of the greatest cons in history, following in the footsteps of the great Black writers, exploring Black and American identity in his novel, a four-toed cat sanctuary in Key West, Zoroastrianism, developing a writer’s intuition, and how to be your own Well of creative energy.

Find Havi on Instagram: @airhavi