Alyssa Gaines' lyrical and bilingual performance of Lágrimas Negras was full of poise, song, and dance. WRTV caught up with the National Youth Poet Laureate, an east Indy native and Park Tudor grad:
Urban Word's National Youth Poet Laureate Program celebrates the nation's top youth poets. Amanda Gorman — the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history — was appointed this same distinction in 2017.Gaines' lyrical and bilingual performance of Lágrimas Negras was full of poise, song, and dance.
"In the poem, there's a lot about cooking and music, and the culture that is held in language, diasporically, and I think that looking to these community's traditions to heal in times of grief and in times of struggle is something that I'm really interested in, both inside of my poetry and outside of my poetry," Gaines said.
Gaines says her first standing ovation at a Poetry Slam during a Library of Congress's National Book Festival made her realize all that poetry could do. She then joined Voices Corp., a local poetry organization, through which she became involved with Urban Word. Lágrimas Negras is the title of the poem Gaines performed at The Kennedy Center. The title translates in English to"Black Tears." It's the same title as a song by Miguel Matamoros.
"But I've definitely seen all that this art form can do. And so I'm very grateful to have seen those; the capacity for poetry and all that I could do with the art form," she said."I'd like to respect that I have grown a lot, and I have grown from consuming and watching other poems, reading other poems."
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