These poems make clear that Olayiwola, current poet laureate of Boston, is just beginning what is sure to be a long and much-lauded tenure in American poetics.
Categories: BOOK REVIEWS • Tags: Button Poetry, Performance Poetry, poetry, poetryquestion, slam poetry, stage
Poetry Speaks For Itself (except it can’t actually speak at all) —- Taylor Mali Deconstructing the difference between the message and the messenger. I sat on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival recently called something like Poetry in Performance. Four poets were asked to perform a poem and then partake in a moderated Q&A. Normally I would have felt quite at home on such a panel, but two things happened that afternoon that led me to believe I might […]
Categories: THE POWER OF POETRY • Tags: #powerofpoetry, brooklyn book festival, Page Meets Stage, Performance Poetry, poetry, poetry in performance, spoken work, Taylor Mali, the poetry question, Tyehimba Jess