我是詩人
智慧人生
作者：By Emily Moore
y name’s Emily Moore， and I’m a poet. Among other things， I’m also a classroom teacher. I teach high school English. I think one of the things that I love about poetry—and that maybe all writers of poems love—is that there’s a message-in-a-bottle quality to poems. We love， as writers， to imagine readers discovering the right poem at the right time.
So when I was younger， I used to copy down poems. One poem that I copied， and I eventually put up on my wall， you know， my dorm room wall， was by Jody Gladding. It was this totally 1）obscure poem called 2）Locust Shell. Fast forward maybe five years later， I was a teacher in New York. A man who then was older than me—now I think he was probably about 30—came and was observing classes at my school， and he observed my class.
And after class， he said， “Oh， you teach poetry， you know， what poets do you like？”And I 3）randomly said， “Oh， you know， I’m obsessed with this poem called Locust Shell， by Jody Gladding， but no one knows who she is.” And he said， “Oh， that’s my sister.”
There’s a charming way that poems travel， so I hope that things I write sort of， you know， go out into this funny world. When I’m not writing or teaching poetry， I’m in a band. Actually， one of my college mentors was the writer Paul Muldoon， and he has a band called The 4）Racket. And I， too， perhaps secretly because of his influence—I’m in an allgirl， country camp 5）trio called 6）Ménage à Twang. We sing silly songs about love and real estate in New York City. So it’s a use of my rhyming and poetic skills.
So this poem is called Crazy Right Now， and the title is from the wonderful 7）Beyoncé.
（Reading） Crazy Right Now.