Danez Smith’s “Dinosaurs in the Hood”
“Besides, the only reason / I want to make this is for that first scene anyway: the little black boy / on the bus with a toy dinosaur, his eyes wide & endless” ~ Danez Smith
spoken word poetry
“If I Should Have a Daughter,” Spoken Word Performance by Sarah Kay
900th TED Talk: Sarah Kay’s “If I should have a daughter…” From the TED website: “Plenty of 14-year-old girls write poetry. But few hide under the bar of the famous Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan’s East Village absorbing the talents of New York’s most exciting poets. Sarah Kay also had the guts to take its stage …