LENNY – S2/EP1: Open Book.
“Random analogies and metaphors, Simple words and phrases,
Digestible poetry…
Combo meals,
Popular for mass consumption.
I desire none of that.”
Categories: "LENNY" - BRADLEY GALIMORE • Tags: African-American, Afro, art, Blue, Column, Crystals, Flowers, freeverse, illustration, Lenny, LGBT, lgbtqia, Natural, poems, poetry, Poetry Slam, poetryquestion, seasons, series, thepoetryquestion, writing
The Power of Poetry Last week I was sitting in a classroom at Lesley University, listening to my professor Rafael Campo open a seminar on the elegy, and the power of poetry to “speak the unspeakable.” One example we looked at was Martha Collins’ poem “Her Poem,” which addresses some of the biggest unspeakables in our lives; love, spirituality, and yes, death. It’s not that we don’t have words for the experience of loving or losing someone, but language […]
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Living just over the bridge from Portland, Oregon, I’ve had the esteemed pleasure of watching Alex Dang at the Portland Poetry Slam over the last couple of years, and it is quite the treat. There’s an ease to which he carries himself that makes him incredibly approachable, but when he steps on stage, the emotion, the conviction, and perfectly well-phrased pieces flow straight from his soul. Much like going to see a band in concert before ever hearing them […]
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