Monday, 12 February: Patricia Smith, "Blonde White Woman" UA 77-79

Reader: Jacqueline Lowman

 

 

 

 

 

The Poet:

Smith was born, raised and educated in Chicago.  After 1991 she left Chicago to pursue her career in journalism in Boston with The Globe.  In 1988 she was considered one of Chicago’s city slam divas, she is a member of Chicago’s first national champion slam team.  Smith is a five-time champion of Uptown Poetry Slam in Chicago, four-time champion of the national Grand Slam and a co-founder of the Boston Slam.

            5a. To discover the power of poetry and fiction to help “others” hear the minority voice and vicariously share the minority experience.

            As a future educator how do I encourage students to be proud of who they are and where their family came from while still enforcing we are all part of the human race? 

Gillan, Maria, and Jennifer Gillan. Eds. Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry. New York: Penguin, 1994. 

"Patrica Smith, Journalism & Poetry: Shall we meditate on Truth?"
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What's Going On: Poetics, Performance, and Patricia Smith's Close to Death. Copyright © 1997 by Julie Schmid. Full text available at http://english.rutgers.edu/schmid.htm