Stephanie Lenox Response

I was a part of the editing and publishing workshop so I was at the reading Stephanie and Heather did Thursday (11/12/15).

I really enjoyed getting to hear them read their poetry aloud because it made me think about poetry as a performance.

In Stephanie's poem Employees Must Wash Hands, I got a good sense of rhythm. I have always been taught poetry a certain way and I have tended to think of poetry as this very one-sided thing. I used to go into it having an idea of what it would be like and I've always been wrong. Poetry always surprises me. The way that Stephanie managed to turn this poem into a sort of chant captivated me. She took a traditional poetry trope (rhyming) and turned it into something that was almost magical.

Hearing her and Heather read their poems made me see them in a new light. Sometimes it's hard to understand what the author wants you to feel until you hear them read. Poetry is musical when it's read aloud and I liked that I got to see that during this night.