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Voices that do not wait for permission.
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Breath held this long stops being a metaphor.
Performed by poet Epitome at Brave New Voices 2023, this piece turns breath into inheritance — asthma, panic, family trauma, and the learned discipline of holding what no child should have had to carry. It opens with a measurement of one body's breath and grows into a harder question: how long can one family hold grief, how long can one generation hold what the last one survived. This is a poem about the systems, homes, and silences that teach people to carry pain until the body mistakes survival for normal.
Team Nashville · Poet: Epitome
Brave New Voices 2023 · Youth Speaks
"This is where we keep the voices that move the signal forward. Not every clip belongs in the room. The ones that do make people stop, listen, and carry the line with them."
"If you are here, you already understand."
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The page becomes voice. The voice becomes signal. The signal becomes archive. The archive becomes room.
The Written Signal Library
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Clap When You Land
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Black
A poetry collection that belongs in the room because Blackness is not a category here; it is memory, pressure, presence, and witness.
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