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In 2008, Gibson won the first Women of the World Poetry Slam. Gibson is known for their work involving gender norms, queer identity, social issues, and LGBTQ+ topics. Gibson is the author of several poetry collections, including You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry, 2021).
- “The Nutritionist”
- “Birthday, For Jenn”
- “Orlando”
- “Fight For Love”
- “When The Bough Breaks”
- “A Letter to My Dog, Exploring The Human Condition”
- “For Eli”
- “Maybe I Need You”
- “Ashes”
- “Prism”
I have never heard a more apt description of depression than this poem. The tragic rise of suicide cases in the U.S. has been linked to loneliness and depression. This poem is a necessary reminder that those who are depressed are not alone in these feelings. It has the potential to touch so many people and provide them the solidarity they need to k...
This poem is full of infinite sadness, love, and hope. I tried to pick out the most striking parts, but you really just have to listen to it in its entirety to get the full experience.
This is only the beginning of a poem that makes me gasp for breath the whole time. Its take on the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. historyis absolutely gut-wrenching. This is not the only poemGibson has written about guns and shootings (if you click that link, grab tissues). This one, however, tackles both the horror of a mass shooting and i...
My first exposure to this poem was live on Thursday night, and it made me so, so happy. As someone who always argues with the ones I love, it was very relatable. The humor in it also helped with recovery from the heavier poems Gibson performed, like “Orlando”. The couple performs it with so much energy, and it’s a joy to behold. I’m not even going ...
Aaaand back to pain. This is an older poem, but it’s timeless. I struggled not to copy paste the whole thing, here. It takes on so many issues in such a brief period of time. Just watch the poem; I can’t describe it. If this post feels like whiplash so far, good. That’s exactly how it felt Thursday night. The alternation between heavy and light poe...
The raw love in this is breathtaking. Gibson refers to their dog, Squash, as “my beating heart, with fur and legs”. After my dog died last year, this poem grew a bit of a painful edge for me. But its funny lines more than make up for it (for instance: “I know I let you down every day I choose not to murder the vacuum.”)
This poem breaks me down every time I hear it, and I’ve heard it many times since I first discovered it years ago. Gibson wrote it when the Iraq War was still going on, so the statistic is somewhat outdated, but the issues are still very real. Far too many veterans suffer from mental illness and substance abuse as a result of their trauma. We have ...
This poem is pure goosebumps. I’ve never heard anything else that captures heartbreak so well. Just hit play and let yourself be swept away.
“Explosive” is right. As Gibson explains at the beginning of this video, this poem is about the murder of a gay soldier, who was burned to death. Gibson brings in religious themes almost immediately, highlighting the hypocrisy of those using it to justify hatred. Vitriolic religious language surrounding homosexuality has often included the phrase “...
This last piece is about the power of love to both sustain and destroy. I have never experienced a love like the one Gibson describes here, but they still manage to make me feel it in every inch of my body. This is why I love spoken word so much: I can listen to an experience I’ve never come anywhere close to, and I can feel like I’m going through ...
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between.
TINCTURE by ANDREA GIBSON. Imagine, when a human dies, the soul misses the body, actually grieves the loss of its hands and all they could hold. Misses the throat closing shy reading out loud on the first day of school. Imagine the soul misses the stubbed toe, the loose tooth, the funny bone.
FIRST LOVE by ANDREA GIBSON. I don’t think I ever really kissed. any boys. I think my tongue had. just been punching their tongues. But as soon as you loved me. all my callous went away. My hands so soft it hurt to pray. You’d pick me up at my Catholic college.
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. by Andrea Gibson - Poems | Academy of American Poets.
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Read poems by this poet. Andrea Gibson was born on August 13, 1975 in Calais, Maine. In 2008, Gibson won the first Women of the World Poetry Slam. They are the author of several poetry collections, including You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry, 2021), Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry, 2018), Pansy (Write Bloody Publishing, 2015), The ...
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