By Marc Felion on November 20, 2007
Like Cher said one time: “words are like weapons, they wound sometimes” and boy, was she right! So right in fact that there is a new book on the market called “Word Warriors,” a collection of interviews, essays and poems by 35 of the most influential female spoken word artists of today. It’s gonna make you think.
Alix Olson, the rock star of Slam Poetry just finished editing “Word Warriors” which Indigo girls’ Amy Ray describes as a treasure and a long time coming. Through verse, these women speak out against the loss of political rights, rape, sexism, discrimination and other topics. It is an engrossing read.
As a young, green kid, Alix got her start at the famous Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City. She shares with us that if she hadn’t been so young and inexperienced she might never have gotten up on that stage. As it turned out, she was so good they invited her to be on their team and they won the National Slam Poetry Competition. Don’t let fear stand in your way of your dreams.
As an artist and activist, Alix wants to help people get in touch with their deep feelings. Right now she feels she can accomplish this with writing, but we can so see her entering politics in the future. Heaven knows America needs a lesbian Slam Poet Václav Havel to lead us into some sort of Velvet revolution.
Andrea Gibson, one of those 35 featured artists in the book joins on the show as well. She is a member of the prestigious Bull Horn Collective, a group of 30 of the world’s highest ranking slam poets. We chat with Andrea about her writing, her process and her gender queer identity.
Alix and Andrea both give us a demonstration of their slam poet style. It’s wonderful to hear these amazing performers speak the powerful words they wrote. It is always a pleasure to be with artist of this caliber.
Listen as we talk with Alix and Andrea about feminism and inclusivity, the future of the queer civil rights movement, why poets spell their names and pronouns in lower case letters and why everyone should fight the binary on the internet!
A big thanks to Kathy Bergquist from Women and Children First Bookstore in Andersonville for putting us in contact with Alix.
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