Do you have a favorite poem that expresses your experience with aphasia? Have you written a poem about aphasia? We are seeking your submissions for an extraordinary event that will take place on March 24 in St Petersburg, FL.
Aphasia’s Got Talent: 2018 Poetry Bash will feature poetry that is performed by, written by, or selected by people living with aphasia. If you know of a poem that expresses how you feel as someone living with aphasia, please submit it. If you have written a poem about living with aphasia, please submit it. We would welcome you at our event to read/perform your poem, or we will ask someone we know to share your poem at the event.
Go to our website to submit your poem. You’ll need to know:
- Your name and contact information
- If you are willing to have us publish your poem online.
- If you would like your name published or not.
We cannot include poetry that does not have a designated author or source.
Look at this example:
Aphasia
By Noah Capurso
We are taught that the brain
Is a set of highways;
Corpus callosum,
Spinothalamic,
Optic radiation.
But there are other roads, as well.
Scenic neural backroads
That are hidden from view;
Dusty and seldom used.
Sometimes we can see them
When the highways are down;
From cancer,
Surgery,
Or a stroke.
Our patient had a brain tumor.
We tested her highways
With a feather drawing;
“What is this?” we asked her.
And the answer she gave
Came by the scenic route;
“A leaf
That fell
From a bird.”