分类目录归档：poet
The first time I uttered a prayer was in a glass-stained cathedral.
I was kneeling long after the congregation was on its feet,
dip both hands into holy water,
trace the trinity across my chest,
my ti
When I was only three or four,
I fell in love with poetry,
with the rhythms and the music of language;
with the power of metaphor and of imagery,
poetry being the essence of communication --
the disci
I was 10 years old when I learned what the word "genocide" meant.
It was 2003,
and my people were being brutally attacked because of their race --
hundreds of thousands murdered,
millions displaced,
a
Poet Ali: Hi. Audience: Hi.
PA: I want to ask you guys a question. How many languages do you speak?
This is not a rhetorical question.
I actually want you to think of a number.
For some of you, it's p
Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar
Miss Gayle's 5 Steps to Slam Poetry,
a lesson of transformation.
Step 1:
Write it all down.
"Take one memory,
explore it like a new land,"
the vi
As an experiment,
we gave recordings of the same Walt Whitman poem to 3 different animators.
Each interpreted the text
with no knowledge of what the others were creating
Here's the result.
"A Noisele
Just for a moment,
focus on your breath.
In slowly.
Out slowly.
In slowly.
Out.
The same pattern repeats within every one of us
and consider your pulse.
The beat is built into the very fabric of our b
Take a ride in Emily Dickinson's chariot.
But beware... there's no turning back.
"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –
hello
i am mukund ramaswamy co-founder of the
neo-folk fusion band kabir cafe
we performed the verses of the 15th
century mystic
kabir khabib spoke about humanity
oneness gender equality love
peace an