How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

Description

Was poetry something you dreaded in school? Have you secretly scribbled it in the margins of notebooks? Has it changed your life? In this slim and accessible field guide, spoken word poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley invite readers to explore their relationships with verse and welcome more poetry, more joy, and more awe into their lives. Whether poetry devotees or total novices, readers will learn to find poetry in unexpected places, navigate a poem when they don't quite "get it," have fun at a poetry slam, and tap into the transformative power of this under-appreciated art form.

Andrea Gibson leapt to the forefront of the spoken-word poetry movement in 2008 when they won the first-ever Woman of the World Poetry Slam. Since then, they have headlined prestigious performance venues all over the country and abroad, authored three collections of poetry, and recorded seven full-length albums. Their poetry focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform, and the struggles of the LGBTQ community. They live outside Boulder, Colorado. Megan Falley is a Woman of the World and National Poetry Slam finalist and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a cofounder of the touring group SPEAK LIKE A GIRL and the creator of the online writing course Poems That Don't Suck. She has toured over one hundred colleges nationwide. Her work focuses on LGBTQ issues, sex, body positivity, and love. She lives outside Boulder, Colorado.