Left Hand Valley Courier - All Local, All The Time

Take out your quills and moleskine notebooks, because April is National Poetry Month.

I used to scorn poetry, as I thought of it as a pretentious medium of literature. That was until I attended Andrea Gibson’s poetry reading in college.

Gibson recited beautiful stories about queer love, their genderfluid identity, criticisms towards white supremacy and our capitalist culture, and how we all...