good info here. thank you!
Preparing For A Poetry Reading
By Jorge Antonio Vallejos
I’m reading tonight at a conference put on by a local organization called Colour of Poverty. The conference, From Poverty To Power, has been on for the last three days. The organizers wanted to include arts that reflected the topic so two fellow poets and I will be on stage tonight.
Who better than poets to know about poverty!
This is my third reading this year. I read my fist commissioned poem, Spreading The Roots and Reach of the Living Tree, at a law conference in March; I read an essay, On Reading Chrystos: Her Words Are Not Vanishing, about challenging rape culture via poetry at a literature conference in early April; and tonight I’m reading poems about poverty.
I have a pre-reading ritual before every reading that might help some of you writers who read in public. …
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