Youth Voices
“7 Politically Correct Cat Calls as Told by a Poet”
As told by Natalie Choi: www.patreon.com/buttonpoetry#2
TEDx
Home is a place you create when you create | Speak Williams
Growing up in poverty and being abused by his father did not provide much in the way of escape or new environments. Speak Williams learned to find his “home” in the arts. He will tell us his story of how creative expression provided him the home he desperately needed. Keith “Speak” Williams is a hip-hop…
Poetry
Noche de Poesia – Latino Poets Night
The Polish Triangle Coalition hosts some of Chicago’s top Latinx poets in an event sponsored by the Latino Experimental Theater Company. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Poetry
Tracy K. Smith reads her poem
Tracy K. Smith reads her poem “I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it,” which is included in the collection “Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration, Poems and Photographs, Past and Present.” Smith was named U.S. poet laureate on Wednesday.
Poetry
The Power of Poetry Is Opening Ourselves to Others
From PBS NewsHour: Tracy K. Smith, a writer and teacher, is taking on a very public role as the nation’s poet laureate. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Smith to discuss how language can be a tool of revelation, her reflections on race in America, her teaching philosophy and why we still need poetry.