Say It/Sing It

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From "Say It/Sing It If the Spirit Leads: Ars Poetica (after Vievee Francis)"
 

Say it.

That every day is a toast

to living. An ode to the way we

made resilience an art

My classroom is a self-love anthem

in 9 parts. Together, we unlearn shame.

Dream silly.

Sing what we cannot say anywhere else.

—Joshua Bennett
Design by Alison Farone © 2013

Watch poet Dr. Joshua Bennett recite "Say It/Sing It" a poem for MOVEMENT, the 2016 celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Watch Dr. Joshua Bennett's lecture: "Self Reflection & History of Spoken Word Tradition" from 2019, Chautauqua Institution