Poets from the Women’s Movement
So Barnard had an event last night: Poets from the Women’s Movement with Jorie Graham, Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, Honor Moore, Eileen Myles and Anne Walden. It was such a great event, I was very inspired and was particularly interested in the work of Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, Audre Lorde’s daughter. I loved that she read some of her mother’s poems and her poems to her mother. It was very moving. One of the things the she mentioned in her poetry was that she was “articulate only in love”. When I look at my own writing, I feel the same. There is something about writing about love where you can never go wrong!
Jorie Graham passed on some great advice too: “Give in to the destructiveness of the subject.” Which means the thing that I am writing about will destroy all the intentions I had for it. That is the only reason for form. I will definitely let the poetry take me on a journey. I think that it will be better works and take you, my readers on that journey as well.
Articulate only in love,
S.Nikkole <3