Welcome back to the Weekly Word. This week we are taking a look at another poet. His name? Rives. Simply, Rives. Just one name, like all the women on Brazil's world cup team (who lost in spectacular fashion to AMERICA). Anyway. You may recognize his shaved head from a TED conference where he spit a couple poems and did a quick wrap-up of the conference, or perhaps you saw his TED talk on 3 A.M. where he revealed to us the conspiracy behind that dark hour of the night.
For your viewing pleasure today, I present to you two poems, both from Rives' appearance on Def Poetry Jam.
The first poem is called “Sign Language”. Rives is fluent in sign language, as well as a couple other languages, and in this poem, he tells us about hosting Deaf Poetry Jams for deaf high schoolers. Very very cool and funny.
Our second poem for today is called, “Kite”. This poem tells the story of the morning after meeting a great girl. Very funny and loving.
To top things off, I present you Rives' page, http://www.shopliftwindchimes.com , which is one of the coolest names for a website ever. Two hints: 1: check out his pop-up books for children, 2: there is a treasure hunt embedded in his website which leads to some easter eggs. Enjoy!
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Coming up next week: An introduction to TED.com
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