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30 Poets in 30 Days

 

Welcome to Larksong's celebration of National Poetry Month - 30 Poets in 30 Days!  This annual event brings together poets from all over the country with poets local to Nebraska. This year we asked Larksong members first to fill half the reading slots, and the other half we filled during a visit to the Associated Writing Program's Conference and Book Fair in Seattle. Most of those were new acquaintances and this event was their introduction to Larksong. The mix of new and familiar allowed us to reach in this one program one of the primary objectives of all the programs we offer: to bring new voices to Nebraska audiences and help send Nebraska voices out into the world. Nebraska has a rich and active literary life and this 30 Poets program is designed to celebrate it.

We recorded 30 poets for this event - 31 actually, there's a bonus double reading on April 6! We reached them via Zoom, visited them in their homes, found them at work, at the airport, and at the Associated Writing Program Conference in Seattle. The poems range from heartbreaking to laugh-out-loud funny, and like such emotions in life they are all mixed up in this list, so you never know what you'll find when you click on a link and start watching. Be ready for anything!

The link to each daily reading will become "live" at 3 am CST on the date they're listed. To watch, click on the 30 Poets 30 Day thumbnail image. The video will play in your browser. Once live the link will stay live so you can watch as many times as you like. You can also find them on YouTube on Larksong's channel under 30 Poets in 30 Days. There's even a playlist! 

A big thank you to all the poets involved!

Enjoy!

 

 

April 20 - Nakeena Hayden

Thursday, April 20, 2023
April 20 - Nakeena Hayden

Nakeena Hayden is a poet with vision - a vision of how to take care of herself and the people around her. She is a Program Manager at When She Thrives, a center in Pittsburgh dedicated to equipping single mothers to move their families from poverty to prosperity through advocacy, education, personal + professional development. Her poetry speaks directly to and from the clarity needed to live up to that ideal. I met her through Tiffany Huff-Strothers, the Founder and CEO of When She Thrives, and I walked away from meeting these two strong women inspired about their work and the role of poetry in finding the voice we need to speak up and speak back.

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