On Smiling and Spoken Word Poetry

When I finally returned home this summer after seven weeks of being away, I found something rather surprising waiting for me.  I suppose you could take it as a “welcome back” present from my mom.  The object itself is actually rather commonplace- one of those solar flowers that moves its petals when exposed to sunlight…

Sarah Kay: Spoken Word

In my English 30-1 class, my teacher use to show us TED talk, which is a talk-show of interesting people. The one that touched me the most was the speech by Sarah Kay. She is an American poet and does what is known as a spoken word poetry.  I saw most of her speech the…