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GSA Daily:
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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At the start of the morning performance, Creative Writing faculty Kelly Ellis looked out into the auditorium and spoke to the young faces that watched her. “We believe art should help change things. We believe art has the power to change things, and art has the power to educate.” Kelly and Ellen Hagan thus opened Creative Writing Immersion Day with a poetry reading of several of their works. They chose works that reflected was it is to be a woman. In a generation of MTV and “The Swan,” the definition of woman has become distorted and in some cases, “inhumane,” as Kelly said. The poems they read were expressions of their own experiences, the women in their lives, and the emotions that make them who they are. |
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| It was a very powerful reading that gave the audience goose bumps. Kelly’s soft, low voice was contrasted with Ellen’s strong and decisive declarations. Ellen’s exuberantly youthful experience differed from Kelly’s serene reflections. It allowed the audience to see how personal poetry is, and how they’re indisputable extensions of the poets themselves. | |||
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listening to the beauty of syllables that skip and swing like a skirt rustling through the leaves but are brown and dry without a woman’s soft touch the timbres of her voice stretch to where the lights of the stage shine golden on the girls and boys in blue and greens until they radiate with the glow of truth that comes from Art.
-Contributed by Christine Tran, Intern |
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