Michelle T. Clinton

Spoken word artist Michelle T. Clinton describes her work as “an attempt to assimilate the racist & sexist violence in my body. The poems struggle to answer the question: How does the individual/community survive and continue to function in the face of systematic atrocity?”

Here Clinton performs her poems “History As Trash” and “Manifesting the Girl Hero,” taken from her spoken word CD “Blood As A Bright Color” (New Alliance).