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Means amen the poem the book is titled after is my favorite poem of all time. The bones below and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Eventually, a performance of this poem was posted, unbeknown to me, on youtube. College institute of spoken word and poetry slam, an annual writing. Slam is a form of poetry that popped up in the 1990s, revitalizing the genre. Monday poems 7 comments blogging button poetry monday poems poetry sierra demulder slam poetry spoken word poetry today means amen it has been a while since i published a monday poem and it has been a while since i wrote here. Please make it clear whether you are the author, or just a referrer. Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds, and at the same time endlessly exposing them annette messager. Her work has been featured on npr, huffington post, the advocate, and more. Sierra demulder is an internationally touring performance poet, mental health advocate, twotime national poetry slam champion, and a fourtime published. She started with a group called the intangible collective in 2007.
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This weeks monday poem is an excerpt from sierra demulders first collection of poetry called the bones below. The poems themselves become an act of recovery and reclamation, wherein the poet finds again the voice which was taken from her. Her debut collection the bones below delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. Sierra demulder is an internationally touring performance poet and educator, a twotime national poetry slam champion, and a thricepublished author of the bones below, new shoes on a dead horse 2010, 2012, write bloody publishing, and we slept here button poetry, 2015.