Poetry Out Loud Coaching – POEM by Jorie Graham

More than just tips: this is coaching for the contest! POEM is deceptively simple: behind its short lines are complex ideas, images, and emotions. How can you communicate all that to an audience? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Margot Roa is the 2020 Poetry Out Loud Champion of Nevada County, California, and a graduate of Nevada Union High School, Grass Valley, California. Conrad Cecil is an actor, director, and poetry reader; Artist in Residence for Nevada County Arts Council, California; and member of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California. #ConradCecil https://www.instagram.com/conrad_cecil/ https://www.facebook.com/Conrad-Cecil-101906821695623 More Poetry Out Loud coaching sessions on the Poetry Out Loud playlist of the Nevada County Arts Council YouTube channel.    • Poetry Out Loud Coaching Sessions   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POEM by Jorie Graham The earth said remember me. The earth said don’t let go, said it one day when I was accidentally listening, I heard it, I felt it like temperature, all said in a whisper—build to- morrow, make right be- fall, you are not free, other scenes are not taking place, time is not filled, time is not late, there is a thing the emptiness needs as you need emptiness, it shrinks from light again & again, although all things are present, a fact a day a bird that warps the arithmetic of per- fection with its arc, passing again & again in the evening air, in the pre- vailing wind, making no mistake—yr in- difference is yr principal beauty the mind says all the time—I hear it—I hear it every- where. The earth said remember me. I am the earth it said. Re- member me. https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/poem/ #poetryoutloud #joriegraham #poetryoutloudcoaching Nevada County Arts Council Website https://www.nevadacountyarts.org/poetry-out-loud

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