![]() ![]() ![]() We also used the poem as an opportunity to look at what poets do with stanzas. As with all my workshops, if they didn’t know their parents well enough to say, I encouraged them to make up fantastic and compelling lies. The workshop is to look at how your parents/guardians are different and from that history, think about the name you think you should have as a result. Jimi Savannah is the name her father wanted to give her and she feels it better represents who she actually is than the name her mother insisted on, Patricia Ann. This week we looked at Patricia Smith’s title poem from her latest collection “Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah” – the poem as well as the book explore Patricia’s upbringing in Chicago and the ways her parents – two very different people – shaped her identity. ![]()
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