For my reading response I wanted to do the actual reading I attended on Wednesday with Dionne Irving and Melanie Jordan. Some of the things I noticed while at this reading was the comfort level of the readers. Melanie Jordan seemed very confident while reading, and even interacts with the audience by providing a little explanation to some of the poems. Dionne Irving, on the other hand, seemed a bit more nervous in the beginning, she kind of stumbled over some of the words and stuttered a little bit, but by the time she made it to the second piece, she seemed much more confident and stronger. She didn't interact as much with the audience, but she only read two pieces. I really enjoyed this reading. Melanie Jordan's poems were great and I liked how she threw in the Audrey Rich poem as a sort of eulogy, and Dionne Irving's stories were marvelous. I was entranced and she never broke that spell that Dr. Davidson always talks about fiction writers doing.
I still remember something that Melanie Jordan said that I want to carry into my writing: she said "I avoided love poems and girl poems for the longest time, but now it seems that's all I write. I found that I avoided them because they were hard and I've learned that I can't avoid what's hard, but rather just do it my own way."
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