I’m So Fine

For the second week of poetry club, the middle schoolers at Hale listened and discussed the hybrid poetic-prose memoir of Khadijah Queen’s book I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Was Wearing. We discussed intersectionality and feminism. We discussed the different societal roles people are pressured into and how everyone has to “preform” gender. We spoke about why it was important to be vulnerable and kind and earnest and speak up for what’s right. And finally, we discussed a poetry style known as stream-of-consciousness which honors the brain’s natural cadence and thought pattern, and how to balance our thoughts with imagery. Here’s a poem from this workshop, published anonymously.