A member of the Yale Slam Poetry Team and in the final year of her undergraduate degree, Emi is heading for a career as a research physician. She won the competition not in spite of but because of the death of a beloved grandmother that occurred just as she set off to compete.
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Emi says of her experience in the competition "you could lose yourself on stage and everyone was there to hold you....I came away from it feeling much better than when I went in and feeling like I did something for [her grandmother],”
But its not just personal - its political as well. Emi has been a political activist since her teens. She was born in Sudan and her performances call upon her own and her family's experiences in the violence in her country of origin.
Watch Emi performing at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. Emi's performances epitomise the powerful potential of spoken word poetry.
2 comments:
This is so powerful, so personal. thanks for the reference. howard
Just watched Emi performing, such raw emotion and power, she takes us into a world of savagery and brutality so hard to imagine, but she delivers it with lyricism and the most amazing visual imagery that will stay with me. This is the real conversation we should be having about refugees.
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