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Home / home / Grace Cavalieri Interviews Slam Poet Star, Mecca Verdell

Nov 09 2020

Grace Cavalieri Interviews Slam Poet Star, Mecca Verdell

The Maryland Poet Laureate talks youth, fearlessness, and colorism with slam poet, Mecca Verdell

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In this new episode of Grace Cavalieri's The Poet and the Poem, the Poet Laureate sits down with 23 year-old Baltimore slam poet, Mecca Verdell, who just recently published her first collection of poems.

Grace and Mecca talk colorism, youth, and fearlessness in this 30-minute long interview which includes a handful of poems which Mecca delivers in a slam performance style. Grace, awed by Mecca's delivery and poetic voice, pronounces that, after 60 years of reading poetry, she is still learning.

Listen to the entire interview here.

Make sure you pick up Grace's book, Other Voices, Other Lives which traces here own journey in poetry and includes several interviews with poets like Rita Dove.

Listen to the Interview Other Voices, other Lives Mecca verdell

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