On the “City Lights” series “Speaking of Poetry,” Atlanta’s most prolific wordsmiths discuss the art of evoking emotions with words. This “Speaking of Poetry” edition features poet Aurielle Marie.
“I think [of my poems] as being in resistance. I’m often writing about bodies, usually those that are black or are in relation to blackness, and their identities…,” said Marie.
“There’s this dance between pleasure and protest, between joy and resistance. That to me feels very black feminist, very Afro-futurist, very fugitive and very Atlanta.”
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