Tomorrow in the faculty commons from 7 to 8:30, we're hosting a spoken word workshop that is going to be given by staff member and spoken word/slam poet Michelle Jackson. The workshop will focus on delivering poetry to a live audience. Try to come with a poem you want to work on, one that is possibly memorized, although that doesn't matter.
the poster:
and here's a poem I'm working on for verse writing:
Ode to Myself
1.
I am supposed
to be a giving
mafia-body to the rapids.
Last night I was the thin
wings of a butterfly and tonight I will be the tenuous
skin in between the tongue and jaw.
I am meant
to be a bag of uncompleted
"when I grow up I want
to be"s.
Last night I was Mae West,
and tonight I will be Sophia Loren.
Next week's schedule is to be announced.
I am told
to be a gaudily painted,
reproduced
ragdoll.
2.
I am
Chaos'
orphan
child a bacterial
blistering growth
in fomenting fragmented
spaces without ebullient
lips and I am
their jaunty
megaphone
spouting
space
fillers.
