This week I finished reading Word Warriors and attended the Portland Poetry Slam. Andrea Gibson is one of my favorite spoken word artists and while reading Word Warriors I learned that she first took the stage at the age of 24 – and this inspired me to not think it’s “too late” for me to immerse myself in the scene. I always have a fear that I am starting too…
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“…Words have the terrible power to dehumanize and destroy, but they also have the tremendous power to heal and rebuild that which has been destroyed.” -Leah Harris I was originally supposed to focus on reading Portland in Three Centuries for this week but once I picked up Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, I could not set it down. From pigeons to politics, this book has…