It’s poetry that’s truly at the heart of Tristen’s creations—so much so that she’s done several songs which have lyrics that are taken from classic poems
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‘The questions are the answers’
Emerging from the late ‘90s spoken word milieu, Gibson is an award-winning spoken word artist and activist
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5 Questions with Nora Harrison
‘I think we all experience hollowness, even if it’s just for a moment’
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The importance of poetry
THIS Sunday, explore the enduring beauty and importance in poetry. Olivia Stiffler’s lecture, “Poetry: Why Read it? Why Write It? Who Cares?” is the first in the Flannery O’Connor Childhood […]
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The best way to enjoy poetry
Believe it or not, your child already loves poetry. Poems are the stuff of childhood.
Unfortunately, many teachers either wring the life out of it with snobby poem choices and stodgy teaching, or neglect poetry altogether.
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Poet Emily Rosko: ‘The distillation of a difficult state of mind’
“Poetry, at its best, ought to shake us out of our habits of convenience and our typical patterns of thought. When I say this, though, I am not saying that poetry has to be highly erudite or has to evade meaning in order to be good.”
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‘Take the stage, skinny man’
Savannah has a habit of losing its most talented sons and daughters to the magnetism of bigger cities with bigger opportunities. That wasn’t the case with Clinton Powell. Rather than […]
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Poetry in motion
When Anis Mojgani arrived in Savannah in 1995, as a fresh SCAD student, he found no outlet for his newly–minted interest in spoken–word poetry, and the competitive performances called poetry […]