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Poetry Jam 2020 - Virtual Verses: Home

A variety of folks from Campbell read poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. Here are their submissions to this year's Virtual Verses Poetry Jam

Poetry Jam 2020 - Virtual Verses

Poems

"I Want to Die While You Love Me," by Georgia Douglas Johnson, read by Mahala Slaughterbeck, Campbell Student
Georgia-born African-American playwright Douglas Johnson with a lyric poem about love and death.
"Sorrow Vanquished / El dolor vencido," by Amado Nervo, read by Ann Ortiz, Campbell Foreign Language Professor
A poem in English and Spanish by Nervo, Mexican poet near the turn of the 20th Century.
"We grow accustomed to the dark," by Emily Dickinson, read by Sherry Truffin, Campbell English Professor
"The bravest grope a little, and sometimes hit a tree." One of Emily Dickinson's trove of wry and honest poems from the 1860s.
"Proverbial Mess," Original Work by Todd Truffin, Campbell English Instructor
A humorous note on Proverbs 3:5.
"I, Too" by Langston Hughes, read by LaKeshia Darden, Wiggins Librarian
Powerful work from Hughes's seminal Harlem Renaissance-era collection "The Weary Blues."
"Point of View," by Shel Silverstein, read by Brooke Taxakis, Wiggins Librarian
Probably don't read this children's classic if you're sitting down to a pot roast.
"Baseball," by Gail Mazur, read by Steve Bahnaman, Wiggins Librarian
Missing baseball - but let's not call it a metaphor for life. It's its own thing.
"His Eye is on the Sparrow," by Civilla D. Martin, read by Anita Brown, Wiggins Staff Member
A classic hymn of 1905.