Clint Smith: The danger of silence
Clint Smith: Niebezpieczeństwo milczenia
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upon the Civil Rights Movement,
o prawach obywatelskich
have to be sources of shame.
powodem do wstydu.
musi podpisać na początku na roku:
at the beginning of the year:
co sprawia przyjemność,
że rozumiesz jego świętość.
McDonalda, frytek
i wszystkiego pomiędzy.
zrezygnowałem z mówienia.
wartościową rzeczą,
ale nie zdawałem sobie sprawy,
co chcieli usłyszeć,
że nie chcę być czyimś sumieniem,
nie potrzebuje słów,
down as if I didn't even notice.
jakbym niczego nie widział.
because the bolt on the lock
spojrzał mi w oczy,
touching the screen on my Apple
those poor, unintelligent kids,"
nieinteligentne dzieci",
we needed her money
bo potrzebowaliśmy jej pieniędzy
potrzebowali godności.
czego nie mówią
to huragan Katrina.
aren't enough body bags left.
worków na ciała.
na moim niezdecydowaniu.
o transcendencji jak Thoreau,
one episode of "The Wire"
o moich dzieciach.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Clint Smith - Poet, educatorClint Smith's work blends art and activism.
Why you should listen
Clint Smith is a writer, teacher and doctoral candidate at Harvard University studying education, incarceration and inequality. Previously, he taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland where, in 2013, he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council.
Clint is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion, an Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist, and author of the poetry collection Counting Descent. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Cave Canem and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere. He was born and raised in New Orleans, LA.
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