WABE’s “City Lights” series “Speaking Of” spotlights local creatives sharing their inspiration, influences and experiences. In our continued efforts to expand the series, we’ve recently added “Speaking of Poetry” to our collection. In this segment, Atlanta’s most prolific wordsmiths discuss the art of evoking emotions with words.
For this edition of “Speaking of Poetry,” we feature poet Nhataniel Placide. Placide describes his poetry as very conversational and very personal.
“It’s not really structured in any kind of way … there’s not necessarily a rhyme scheme or anything like that,” Placide says. “There is a lot of rhyming and a lot of metaphors, but it’s not very structured in that way. It’s very loose.”
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