Sarah Kay: Jalizza's Poem

Sarah Kay is an excellent preformer in her own type of soft-spoken way. I really loved the poem because of all of the simple imagery she uses. It's fairly simple to understand, and I really enjoy her soft tone. It feels almost relatable- like she's talking right to me. The actual message of the poem was very sweet too. As a daughter, I understood all of her metaphors well.

Destiny's Presentation: Taylor Mali


Taylor Mali is known for his exaggerative spoken word preformances.
His poems are mostly spoofs on other topics like grammar, society, humourous topics, etc. The poem that Destiny spoke about, 'Like You Know', is a poem describing how America's ability to speak has diminished to 'declarative sentences that aren't really declarative sentences?' It's funny, actually, because it's true. Mali uses his audience and their common knowledge of ridiculous people in order to get the proper message of his poem across. He always manages to do it successfully, seeing as how people always manage to laugh.