Rahm Made Her Feel Small; Her Words Made Her Big
This poem by Lane Tech English teacher Molly Meacham has been making the rounds.
She performed it again on Sunday as captured in this video by Cliff Potts. (Text here.)
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More about and from Molly Meacham:
From SpokenWord:
Molly Meacham left her Tennessee home to avoid an MRS degree and wound up in Chicago with a double degree of theatre and poetry. She recently returned to school to get a master’s degree in education. Since becoming part of the Spoken Word scene in 2005, Molly made the 2005 and 2006 Mental Graffiti Slam Teams, competed in the 2006 IWPS as the Mental Graffiti representative, and was part of Green Mill team in 2008. In the past three years, she has toured prestigious slams on the West Coast, East Coast, and in Australia. In addition to her solo Australian tour, she recently featured in Germany with the Speak’Easy Ensemble directed by Marc Smith. Back home in Chicago, she belongs to Promethean Theatre Ensemble and teaches Shakespeare with a not-for-profit called The Viola Project.
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Covering a work by Boston poet Nina Simon:
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From StageClick:
“Since from university graduating, she has performed with companies such as Redmoon, Collaboraction, Authentic Theatre Company, and Darknight Galleries. She teaches performance workshops to preteen and teenage girls with The Viola Project.”
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Repeat As Needed.
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Comments welcome.
Posted on September 25, 2012