"Our lives are much more like labyrinths – than linear. One sets oneself up for grief in thinking about life as one trajectory."

"If everything in a poem hangs on some twist of personality, of confession, then it seems thin."

"A world is projected in a poem that might not be the world in which you live. The poem is a figure of existence, but might not be exactly any of the experiences that you have. In the poem certain turns and twists of experience become open. We've all had the feeling in a poem of how did I get there. I didn't have that beforehand and I'm not sure I have it in myself... The poem has an experience of its own."

Why poetry?

"I wouldn't be who i am if i didn't write poetry."

Think Like a Man Too (2014)

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"Translation is treachery. The less well you know a language the better you can translate poetry – not prose."

"We have no idea about the extent of our actions in life."

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"Poetry is an art and it's also a craft – meter, rhyme, tropes. Nowadays in the post-romantic world we don't think that. But the learning has to be in one's muscles and bones. Then it affects you as a poet."

"There’s a deep anonymity in human beings, some current, before our proper names, before our social existences, before we’re cultural constructs. I sometimes say all great poems are anonymous – there's something in the quality of the voice. It can be inflected with one’s own idiom, because it’s an anonymous current, its fragmented.”

Denison University, Swasey Chapel

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Photos from the free public celebration led by Councilman David Oh and Mural Arts Philadelphia honoring North Philly-born comedian Kevin Hart with a family fun event and mural dedication at Max’s Steaks, held Thursday, July 6, 2017

In attendance:

Council President Darrell L. Clarke (5th District)

Councilman David Oh (At Large)

Councilwoman Cindy Bass (8th District)

Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell (3rd District)

Councilman Kenyatta Johnson (2nd District)

State Senator Sharif Street

Sheila Hess, Philadelphia City Representative

Jane S. Golden, Mural Arts Program

Photos: Jared Piper/PHLCouncil Fellow

A poem is subconscious work.

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