Brian Sonia-Wallace
State of the Nation
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Author’s Note: On election day, 2016, as part of the #poetsatthepolls initiative that I founded, I wrote personal poems for voters and concerned citizens throughout the day at a polling place, and through the evening at a voting party as the result of the election became increasingly evident. This poem is a collage poem of 10 works I created for other people that day.
Brian Sonia-Wallace is the author of I Sold These Poems, Now I Want Them Back (Yak Press, 2016). He has been the Writer in Residence for the Mall of America, Amtrak Trains, and Dollar Shave Club, and also creates typewriter poetry installations and shows for large clients from Google to the Emmys. As a teaching artist, Brian guest lectures at UCLA and teaches K-12 students throughout LA County in partnership with Get Lit and 24th Street Theatre. Brian holds an MA from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, with a thesis on community voicing projects.
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