Question: When people say "[insert piece of art] changed my life" what do you mean? Curious about if art spurs specific change for people or if they just use the hyperbole to mean I REALLY REALLY love this thing.
I genuinely feel that there is a before reading @LidiaYuknavitch’s “The Chronology of Water” & an after for me, both as a writer & as a person. As a person I felt seen & heard & less alone. As a writer, I felt I had permission to play. And then, there was the first time I ever...
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Saw someone perform poetry from the poetry slam/spoken word world in 2002 when I was a pre-fresh looking to go to
@Penn. I saw@CarlosAGLive perform, matriculated that fall, & joined@excelanoproject instead of a theatre, acapella, or dance group. It quite literally changed.... -
The course of my life. I grew up planning to be a triple thread on Broadway & then write journalism & nonfiction books. I always wrote poetry & didn’t know it could be performed in the same way I performed theater. And now, here I am professionally doing that.
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These are only two examples. I have dozens & dozens. Books. Concerts. Musicians. Bands. Moments. All@of which quite literally changed the course of my life both as a human and as an artist. No hyperbole. No metaphor. Real facts. And p.s. excellent question posed here. Thank you.
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Me too! this book gave me permission to write the book I wanted—using the voice that made sense to me and not to “the audience”. It completely freed me.
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