You're probably here because you've attended my Random Acts of Poetry performance! Thank you.
I created Random Acts of Poetry because I love to perform my poetry, and poems by other poets I love and admire, poems that inspire me and give me hope. At first I thought I must have a platform, a stage! But then I decided the whole outdoors will be my stage, I can go to a public space and burst into verse, and whoever wants to listen will be welcome to.
My first Random Acts of Poetry took place on the Solstice Steps, at Lakewood Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Saturday June 19th 2021, 8:00 –
9:00 pm.
Here are the poems I will perform if
you wish to hear them again:
1. Face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbFGuviD
2. Silence Has Sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZIFZP2F_Q
3. Born A Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojTukM6OJ38&t=1s
4. Let It Be Fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67fl9ksgdsE&t=3s
5. Another Birth by Iranian poet Forogh Foroghzad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s6WE1MTH_
Here is an essay I wrote on Foroghzad, if you wish to know more about her: https://fatimaalmatar.blogspot.com/search?q=Forugh+Farrokhza
6. The Sunshine Cat by Indian poet Kamala Das https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsK-Dr7pgqc&t=18s
7. Here is a beautiful rendition of 'somewhere i have never traveled' by American poet e. e. cummings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66fUNBpk4ls
Here is a short essay I wrote on cummings: https://fatimaalmatar.blogspot.com/search?q=e.+e.+cummings
8. Here is a powerful rendition of 'The Laughing Heart' by German-American poet Charles Bukowski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEbIuDuW7l8
My second Random Act of Poetry will take place on July 24th 2021, at Wade Oval on the steps that
lead to The Cleveland Museum of Art, 7:30 pm. Here are the six poems I will perform:
