Creative Expressions: Poetry Slam – Voices be Heard! - Thursday, June 25, 2020

Creative Expressions: Poetry Slam – Voices be Heard!

Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 5-6pm

The SUNY Empire community has a rich and varied artist community. Join us and meet our faculty, staff, student, and alumni artists to learn a little about their creative expressions, their process, and them. Our artists host a Q&A session following their presentations/performances.

 

Creative Expressions happen every Thursday at 5pm in Zoom at this link - https://bit.ly/CreativeExpressionSeries.

 

Featured on Thursday, June 25th will be live readings of poetry submitted by faculty, students, staff, and alumni.  Join us for an evening of listening and reveling from the poetic voices of our SUNY Empire State College community.

We put out a call for poetry expressing the energy of exultation and indignation, embodying willfulness, sharing memories, or bearing witness. Our community responded in profound and powerful ways. Come hear their voices. Luxuriate in the artistry and performance of the spoken word.

 

Faculty member and award winning poet, Mindy Kronenberg; graduate student Lynn Saum (also alumna of the Classes of 2018 & 2019); and faculty member Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein serve as your humble organizers of this first Poetry Slam session. 

 

Weekly host: Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein

Note: If you missed our previous sessions or cannot make it this week, all of the sessions are recorded. You can also view all of the recordings and materials from the series at this website.

 

Program

Introduction – Mindy Kronenberg, faculty

Mirror - Diane Owens, student

Demon Time - Brittany Hennis, student

Unfriended - Debbie Kearns, staff and student

Self-centered - Rimsha Javed, student

Dementia in the Time of Pandemic - Heidi Nightingale, faculty

Autumn - Vanessa Chonou, student

I Can’t Breathe - Cecile McIntosh Carless, student

Screaming in Silence - Marcia Clark, student

I Will Always Love You, Mama - Cecile McIntosh Carless, student

Out - Lynn Saum, graduate student and Classes of 2018 & 2019

Before - Debbie Kearns, staff and student

the nankeen nothing - Jared Geisenheimer, graduate student

A Path Back - William Fajen, Class of 2020

The C Word - Harley Madden, student

Love Letters - C. Harrison, student

The F Word - Peggy Lynn, faculty

Death Penalty - Cecile McIntosh Carless, student

NO LONGER - Shaunda Holloway, student

Hope is Not Lost - Teresa Triola, student

In an Instant - William Fajen, Class of 2020