An excellent piece of slam poetry from Guante on how the REAL man concept is so unhelpful and shaming to men. This is what I’m talking about. Please listen – transcipt is printed below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayzwzGB2kXw http://www.guante.info/ TEN RESPONSES TO THE PHRASE “MAN UP.” 1. f*** you. 2. If you want to question my masculinity, like a schoolyard [...] Read more »
OMM Poetry – I believed in Lies
This poem is written by a good friend of mine – Howard Wright from Nottingham in the UK. Howard is an authentic man seeking to get to grips with his emotional wounds and he finds poetry to be a great outlet. I was brought up to believe that I couldn’t So when push came [...] Read more »
OMM Poetry – I am a man
This poem ‘I am a man’ is by a young slam poet called Harry Baker. I think it is an excellent poem from a young man that incorporates humour,vibrancy, vulnerability , humanity, masculine issues, death, friendship, sacrifice, and men’s emotions. I like his engaging persona , expressiveness and the tenderness he displays as he tells a story about one [...] Read more »
Screaming Men
These verses are taken from a poem called Screaming men, written in a collection of poems with the same title ( see book cover below) by a friend of mine – David Jackson. (1998) Some floundering men still scream for change. No new men or wild men these. Not men who fill in the daylight [...] Read more »
