Slam poetry benefits RAWA
Politics. Love. Sexuality. Oppression. These were the recurring themes in Andrea Gibson’s slam poetry performance last Thursday evening.
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The poet spoke personably to the crowd, jokingly warning the crowd after a mellow opening poem that it would likely be the last poem in which she doesn’t scream. Gibson’s poetry covered a range of topics, everything from the war in Iraq to the issue of “queer marriage,” as Gibson prefers to call it.
“No senators’ sons are being sent out to slaughter. No presidents’ daughters are licking ashes from their lips; or dreaming up ropes to wrap around their necks in case they ever make it home alive. Our eyes
are closed, America. There are souls in the boots of the soldiers, America. Fuck your yellow ribbon. You wanna support our troops. Bring them home. And hold them tight when they get here,” Gibson read
passionately from her anti-war poem “For Eli.”
Posted: November 23rd, 2009 under Afghanistan, Canada, Events, Women.