Graced with Poetry

On February 6, 2013, we had a read in at school for American American Studies. It is black history month so that was a great way to start the month off. There are many read ins within the country and I just happened to be in one and it was a great thing according to one of professors at school. I did agree with the very statement that she said as well. We were graced with poetry by  Children's writer and poet Samantha Thornhill. The way she was dressed was so afrocentric; I loved all of it and she was basically matched how she was dressed. She performed many poems that were hers as well as her favorites. It was cool to hear a poet so down to earth. She teaches upcoming actors at Julliard and that is really cool. In the end, I ended up purchasing her cd full of poems that were odes in fact. The name of  the cd is Odelicious poems and I got her autograph too, which is really nice. I told her she must have been practicing because it is a  signature that no one can copy. That's the type of signature you should have and want so that when you sign documents and whatever else you do, you actually have a signature that's all your own and is unique. So, I got that and posted it too. There will be a photo of what I have described in this blog.  I was just so inspired by the way she recited her poetry and how she made you hang on to every word. She seems very young too and she goes on the Q train : herself and some others and basically do what she does. She doesn't even do it for me and they are trying to do it in other places she said. She will be doing it in Bryant Park this weekend she said but I' m not sure about that one due to the weather that we will be having on Saturday. But, I'm thinking to take a trip on the Q train on purpose just to see if she will end up on that train one day and I will be happy to purchase something again and to get it autographed again.  It was such a blessing to be graced by this poet with her poems and other poems  that inspired her in some way. Samantha Thornhill told us how poetry is everywhere and you can make a poem about an inanimate object as if it has a voice.  It was really cool because she talked about a balloon that was in the street and how it  was being ran over by cabs and other cars leading up to its death. She made things seem like they have a voice with poetry. It has inspired to write poetry again not just when I'm angry but anything that is out there tangible intangible animate inanimate it doesn't matter. As long as I am breathing I have a voice, she said something on the lines. She was also saying that she's not a person who writes when angry that's not when she does her best work. Her work is great and I listened to the cd this morning while in the shower and some of the poems she performed at school and others she did not. She did have language in her poems like some of them, but not all and I guess it gives it even greater emotion to do. You can feel the emotion in every single one  of the poems that she wrote and even the ones that she didn't write you can feel it as well. I was grateful to be apart of something that has a legacy behind it and I intended to look up these things for the future too.






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