Each week, poet Dee Dickens discusses a collection of poetry, which is her favourite and introduces you to a Line To Make You Go Ooooh!. She also has a guest on to discuss what they have been up to, poetry and otherwise.
Join her as she wanders round a world of poetry that isn't entirely populated by old, white men.
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Each week, poet Dee Dickens discusses a collection of poetry, which is her favourite and introduces you to a Line To Make You Go Ooooh!. She also has a guest on to discuss what they have been up to, poetry and otherwise.
Join her as she wanders round a world of poetry that isn't entirely populated by old, white men.
Welcome to the third episode of Dickens and Quips!This week we have Christina Thatcher on the show and I shall be reading from Audre LordeFind Christina at @jwritetoempower on Twitter and InstaI'm almost certain that Audre Lorde doesn't have a Twitter, but you can read more about her here.We are atTwitter: @dickensandquipsInstagram: @dickensandquipsEmail: dickensandquips@gmail.comPrompt for this week is "fire extinguisher" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.Featured poem:Who Said It Was SimpleBY AUDRE LORDEThere are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear.Sitting in Nedicksthe women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free.An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them first and the ladies neither notice nor reject the slighter pleasures of their slavery. But I who am bound by my mirror as well as my bedsee causes in colouras well as sexand sit here wondering which me will survive all these liberations.Bad Things Are Going To Happen by Dee DickensAfter Ellen BassBad things are going to happen.You will get your heart brokenby someone who will deny theyever held it in their hands.Bad things are going to happen.You will have to deal with idiotswho think coronavirus is causedby 5G,or the ‘Lady Chemicals’ that are releasedwhen someone’s tongueknows its way around your clit.Bad things are going to happen.Avril Lavigne will actually die.Again.Britney Spears will murder her clone.The moon landing will be proved to be real.The moon will be proved to be real.911 will have been an inside job.Barak will admit he is Kenyan.And we will have nothing to talk about;except art, and music and poetry andwe will have nothing to do;except write poetry and paint andsing. Sing. Sing.And love.Bad things are going to happen.But there is always love.Addicts Die a Thousand Deaths by Christina Thatcher.Christina read from When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie DiazLine that makes you go OOOH from A Litany For Survival by Audre Lorde.Prompt for this week is movement of people
Dickens and Quips - Poetry Pod
Each week, poet Dee Dickens discusses a collection of poetry, which is her favourite and introduces you to a Line To Make You Go Ooooh!. She also has a guest on to discuss what they have been up to, poetry and otherwise.
Join her as she wanders round a world of poetry that isn't entirely populated by old, white men.
