The In the Words of Womyn workshop I lead at Tia Chucha’s was invited to prepare poetry pieces that were to be given to various city and state politicians at an upcoming community meeting panel discussion event.
After the poems were submitted it was decided, by members of the board of the organization which had extended us the invitation, to not use our poetry as some of it was seen as unsuitable to be presented to the politicians.
In order to honor the womyn who composed these pieces and to honor the vision of ITWOW to empower womyn to speak candidly, passionately, and without apology, I have published their poems here. You may find these six poems under the tag: “Poetry for Politicians.”
Tia Chucha’s will also be honoring these womyn by creating a space for our poetry to be heard; one such occasion will be at Open Mic this Friday March 12, 2010 from 8-10pm. You are all invited to come out and not only support these poets but to share your own work as well!
