andru x ted: the poetics of ice cream and fragile masculinity

Sacra­men­to Poet Lau­re­ate An­dru De­f­eye fus­es sto­ry­telling and spo­ken word po­et­ry to ad­dress frag­ile mas­culin­i­ty and men­tal health strug­gles in a pow­er­ful per­for­mance of “The Pokey Poem.” … This talk was giv­en at a TEDx event us­ing the TED con­fer­ence for­mat but in­de­pen­dent­ly or­ga­nized by a lo­cal com­mu­ni­ty. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
 

All I ever did in class was write po­ems and disrupt. 

Now they in­vite me on all these big stages to spit these po­ems and disrupt. 

So over­whelm­ing­ly grate­ful to Matt Loughran, Real Jen Oliv­er and the TEDx Fol­som team for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to share my work and mes­sage about (es­pe­cial­ly men’s) men­tal health and wellbeing. 

Thank you for your ad­vo­ca­cy, sup­port, and all you do.

—an­dru defeye

Flom­mist An­dru De­f­eye is the Guer­ril­la Poet Lau­re­ate of Sacra­men­to. Copy­right © 2024 An­dru Defeye.

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