In this post our resident wordsmith / Audience Development Officer Angela reflects on our recent Maya Angelou-inspired poetry event.
(This post was originally published on the Young Person’s University of Manchester blog.)
“Write for 5 minutes without stopping”, she said, and the stopwatch started. Easy-peasy, I thought. I can certainly talk for 5 minutes without stopping. The paper began to fill with my ramblings, but as the minutes ticked on my wrist started to ache and my brain began to freeze. I glanced around the table at the other workshop participants, each lost in his or her own thoughts and writing. They were a diverse group, in age, race and gender, brought together by one woman’s words.
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