{"id":5582,"date":"2017-01-23T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2017-01-23T10:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:28:35","slug":"the-power-of-poetry-and-nasty-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/the-power-of-poetry-and-nasty-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Poetry &#8212; and &#8220;Nasty Women&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on the Poetry Chaikhana&#8217;s Facebook page over the weekend, but I thought I should share it here, as well.  This is a video of the actress Ashley Judd reciting a poem by a 19-year-old young woman about &#8220;Nasty Women.&#8221; As she speaks this poem, she stalks across the stage and channeling the shared experience of outrage combined with a renewed spirit of self-assertion.  It is blunt, the language and imagery will be uncomfortable for many.  But I share it for this reason: This poem, and the way it is delivered, is undeniably powerful. This poem has become one of the focal points of this massive movement.  Refusing to mince words, this poem gives voice to the feelings of so many women who participated in this weekend&#8217;s events. <\/p>\n<p>That is the power of poetry.  Crystalizing and magnifying the sense of identity and purpose within the collective awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you like the poem or the mood it represents, I encourage you to watch in order to see the power of poetry as it operates within society.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Judd&#8217;s &#8220;Nasty Woman&#8221; Speech<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffb_5X59_DA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on the Poetry Chaikhana&#8217;s Facebook page over the weekend, but I thought I should share it here, as well. This is a video of the actress Ashley Judd reciting a poem by a 19-year-old young woman about &#8220;Nasty Women.&#8221; As she speaks this poem, she stalks across the stage and channeling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6],"tags":[2034,2033,2035,2032],"class_list":["post-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","category-videos","tag-ashley-judd","tag-nasty-women","tag-the-power-of-poetry","tag-womens-march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}