THE POWER OF POETRY #30: LAUREN GILMORE
Two years ago, as part of my hometown’s annual literary festival, I competed in a teen poetry slam. For winning, I was given the opportunity to open for two of the headliners, Major Jackson and Robert Wrigley. It was a poem about my father dying. I read it from memory so the page wouldn’t shake. After the show, I was flooded with enthusiastic praise. Everyone wanted to shake my hand, and more than once I was asked what I […]
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