http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/08/poetry-the-conqueror-of-pimples-and-all-prepubescent-profundities/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/08/poetry-the-conqueror-of-pimples-and-all-prepubescent-profundities/#comment-771 Michael R Brown Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:47:42 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=337#comment-771 Kindred Spirits… I know a 12 year old who shares the same passion, the same excitement and the same blessing to be exposed to the poetic greats… here is her bio: Kyndall Brown is 12 years old and attends Hardy Middle School in Washington DC. She is a member of Girls and Boys with Hearts, a poetry group founded and directed by Ladi Di (the Love Poet). A first place prize winner of the 2005 Washington DC Poetry Fest Slam Championship, Kyndall has performed her poetry on various stages in the DC metropolitan area including the Pantene Totally You Tour at the Washington Convention Center, the DC Poetry Festival at the Carter Baron and the Langston Room at the Busboys and Poets Café. She has also performed at the HBO Theater in New York City (You were the guest MC for this event). Kyndall also had a cameo appearance in the Larry Neal Award winning dramatic play “Prison Poetry” by “Papi” Kymone Freeman at the Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. Kyndall is active in the community. She has performed at community rallies and festivals, including the October 2006 rally to reopen the Anacostia Public Library, the Black History Poetry Festival at Iverson Mall, in Hillcrest Heights, MD and the Black LUV Festival in Washington D.C. Her work has been published in the “Beltway Poetry Quarterly”, “ECHOES: Voices from Prince George's County Poets” and the soon to be released “Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones”, which features poetry from such greats as E. Ethelbert Miller and Tony Medina. Kyndall has also been a featured poet on the 2KNation radio program (WPFW 89.3FM) in Washington DC. Kyndall Brown is also the proud author of a self published book of poems titled “I Ain’t Ascared of Nutin’… The Evolution of Me”. Kindred Spirits… I know a 12 year old who shares the same passion, the same excitement and the same blessing to be exposed to the poetic greats… here is her bio: Kyndall Brown is 12 years old and attends Hardy Middle School in Washington DC. She is a member of Girls and Boys with Hearts, a poetry group founded and directed by Ladi Di (the Love Poet). A first place prize winner of the 2005 Washington DC Poetry Fest Slam Championship, Kyndall has performed her poetry on various stages in the DC metropolitan area including the Pantene Totally You Tour at the Washington Convention Center, the DC Poetry Festival at the Carter Baron and the Langston Room at the Busboys and Poets Café. She has also performed at the HBO Theater in New York City (You were the guest MC for this event). Kyndall also had a cameo appearance in the Larry Neal Award winning dramatic play “Prison Poetry” by “Papi” Kymone Freeman at the Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. Kyndall is active in the community. She has performed at community rallies and festivals, including the October 2006 rally to reopen the Anacostia Public Library, the Black History Poetry Festival at Iverson Mall, in Hillcrest Heights, MD and the Black LUV Festival in Washington D.C. Her work has been published in the “Beltway Poetry Quarterly”, “ECHOES: Voices from Prince George’s County Poets” and the soon to be released “Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones”, which features poetry from such greats as E. Ethelbert Miller and Tony Medina. Kyndall has also been a featured poet on the 2KNation radio program (WPFW 89.3FM) in Washington DC. Kyndall Brown is also the proud author of a self published book of poems titled “I Ain’t Ascared of Nutin’… The Evolution of Me”.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/08/poetry-the-conqueror-of-pimples-and-all-prepubescent-profundities/#comment-770 kwame dawes Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:18:16 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=337#comment-770 Dear Patricia, Thank yu so much for the reassurance. No, not that poetry can save a life. Not that poetry has one's back. Not that if you feed them poetry, eventually they will grow to like it. No, not so much for those things, which are all good; but for reassuring me that at least one other seventh grade girl is trying to match binders with clothes! I no longer feel alone. Thanks. One love KD PS. Brilliant post. Dear Patricia,
Thank yu so much for the reassurance. No, not that poetry can save a life. Not that poetry has one’s back. Not that if you feed them poetry, eventually they will grow to like it. No, not so much for those things, which are all good; but for reassuring me that at least one other seventh grade girl is trying to match binders with clothes! I no longer feel alone. Thanks.
One love
KD
PS. Brilliant post.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/08/poetry-the-conqueror-of-pimples-and-all-prepubescent-profundities/#comment-769 Manda Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:59:52 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=337#comment-769 Last night. Wal-Mart.10:00pm. Me in a tight cluster with other last minute moms looking for folders (with pockets and brads), glue (in bottles and sticks), enough Kleenex to pad a sofa and crayons (16 in a box, two boxes). I’m sure I didn’t get everything because they were out of supply lists for my daughter’s school so I used another schools list and the store was out of half of that stuff anyway. I figure I’ve done my job. She’s alive and will be at school on Monday. Hell, she’ll even be happy because her grandma won her a new Tinkerbelle backpack in a raffle at a local pawn shop. Ain’t life grand? Last night. Wal-Mart.10:00pm. Me in a tight cluster with other last minute moms looking for folders (with pockets and brads), glue (in bottles and sticks), enough Kleenex to pad a sofa and crayons (16 in a box, two boxes). I’m sure I didn’t get everything because they were out of supply lists for my daughter’s school so I used another schools list and the store was out of half of that stuff anyway. I figure I’ve done my job. She’s alive and will be at school on Monday. Hell, she’ll even be happy because her grandma won her a new Tinkerbelle backpack in a raffle at a local pawn shop. Ain’t life grand?
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