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...also added a few poems that Plath had left out. That in itself is hardly a crime--even a genius needs a good editor once in a while--but Ariel contains a great deal of pain and sorrow and rage directed at Hughes. He was an exceptionally gifted poet himself--he would later become England's poet laureate--but if you're looking for a selfless, disinterested editor to reshape somebody's work, you do not hire the guy who just broke that person's heart...
...POET POTPOURRI
After McIntyre performed, Crystal Johnson, a published poet from the Black Out Arts Collective, took the stage, half-singing, half-reading two poems with such striking, dramatic lines as, “are we Feng Shui or Sinn Fein?” and “I don’t ever want to be Barbie, and brother you can never be Ken.” An obvious crowd favorite, Johnson, a Cambridge grade school teacher by day, nonchalantly shrugged off the effort it took for her to come out and perform gratis, saying, “I like...
...family was nearly forced out of our rented apartments and we had to really fight to stay.” In a different twist on the idea of “homelessness,” Bravo explored the feelings of disenfranchisement that immigrants like herself experience. A true poet at heart, Bravo commented, “If one person found solace with my words, that’s already changing the world...
...final two performers were the published poet known only by the title, “Melissa,” and the newly signed local rapper Sean Dwyer. Melissa gave her thoughtful prose dramatic vivification with hand movements and body language depicting the stories within her stories. Dwyer finished off the night with an energetic delivery of original songs, and offered CDs to the many eager students and poetry buffs in attendance...