The Virginia Tech convocation was draining, so sad. Cliches were everywhere, the hurt so deep that speakers clicked into rote language. The words hardly mattered.
Until...
Nikki Giovanni punched her poetic fist through the dreary proceedings, daring the mourners to imagine themselves normal again. In brash and rousing womanspeak that was part poem, part sermon and part backhand slap, she did what even President Bush couldn't.
She hinted at something called tomorrow.
Patricia Smith (she/her) has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is...
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