Censorship and truth suppression are on the rise, and this poem talks about an issue in the recent past where I was invited and uninvited from a speaking engagement in less than an hour. I can only guess, based on the response I received, that I appeared "too political" to speak as a professional author at a high school author fair.
Ashey M Jones on, "Poem In Which I Am Too Political To Read At Your School" |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jody Gladding on [she is one who looks]
"Released from the bubble of voice, narrative, and image, words animate space differently—the degraded 'open space,' the space of the poem. They inhabit it, root, and evolve there. Perhaps they have always done so, they just needed to be freed from lineation and author/ity to make that clear. These are not my own words. They refuse ownership. You can read them any way you like." |
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