Last night four Unrestricted writers–Adam Wolfond, Sid Ghosh, Imane Boukaila, and Hannah Emerson–invited the poets of now into the neurodiverse future. Click here to see the video. Although it was a webinar-style Zoom presentation, I could honestly feel the way their poems were changing people. I am given to something called emotional synesthesia, a kind of hyper-empathy that is both blessing and curse, but even I couldn’t imagine feeling other people’s feelings across the digital divide until last night. Then it happened. I was reading a poem by Hannah when suddenly I felt very overwhelmed, tears welling in my eyes, and when I was able to see the chat once more, it was full of people crying. One person admitted that they’d been in tears since the first reader.
The Beautiful Fortune of Only Speaking in Poems
The Beautiful Fortune of Only Speaking in…
The Beautiful Fortune of Only Speaking in Poems
Last night four Unrestricted writers–Adam Wolfond, Sid Ghosh, Imane Boukaila, and Hannah Emerson–invited the poets of now into the neurodiverse future. Click here to see the video. Although it was a webinar-style Zoom presentation, I could honestly feel the way their poems were changing people. I am given to something called emotional synesthesia, a kind of hyper-empathy that is both blessing and curse, but even I couldn’t imagine feeling other people’s feelings across the digital divide until last night. Then it happened. I was reading a poem by Hannah when suddenly I felt very overwhelmed, tears welling in my eyes, and when I was able to see the chat once more, it was full of people crying. One person admitted that they’d been in tears since the first reader.