Poet, performer, and teaching artist Fatimah Asghar shares her thoughts on the transformative power of spoken-word poetry in the work that she does with Young Chicago Authors. Students share their thoughts about spoken-word poetry, as well as their own poems.
Asghar is a performer, poet, and member of the multicultural Dark Noise Collective. She is the author of After a chapbook forthcoming from YesYes Books. Click here to hear one of Asghar’s poems.
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