Willie Perdomo’s “Where I’m From” is published in Perdomo’s book, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime. As you read, notice how Perdomo begins by appealing to a specific listener and then allows his poem to grow through images and dialogue and language that reads like music. There is a spoken element to this work even […]
Staceyann Chin: “If Only Out of Vanity”
Staceyann Chin’s Spoken Word presentation on Def Poetry, “If Only Out of Vanity,” (3 min) showcases her use of dramatic language and physicality and fearlessness on stage and in her work. Here, Chin contemplates whether or not she will feel her outspoken political stances were “worth it” in a later point in her life. This […]
Willie Perdomo Video: “How Beautiful We Really Are”
Here is Willie Perdomo, a poet who has visited City Tech for the Literary Arts Festival. Perdomo is a dramatic and powerful reader and provides a good example of the value of listening to poetry discussed by Ed Hirsch in his How to Read a Poem, also on our class site. The link to the […]
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