Mission Cultural Center Celebrate Diane di Prima - Jack Hirschman poems

San Francisco poets and artists gathering for a special poetry reading to celebrate Diane di Prima, San Francisco new Poet Laureate.
Roberto Vargas and Nina Serrano were the main organizers of this very successful community event that included the participation of three former San Francisco Poets Laureates: Jack Hirschman, Janice Mirikitani, and Devorah Major. It also featured poets Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jorge Tetl Argueta, Avotcja, Adrián Arias, and Mamacoatl.
In this Video-Clip by MCCLA.Multimedia Dpt, 2 poems by former Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Jack Hirshman.

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Go to your broken heart.
If you think you donít have one, get one.
To get one, be sincere.
Learn sincerity of intent by letting
life enter because youíre helpless, really,
to do otherwise.
Even as you try escaping, let it take you
and tear you open
like a letter sent
like a sentence inside
youíve waited for all your life
though you've committed nothing.
Let is send you up.
Let it break you, heart.
Broken-heartedness is the beginning
of all real reception.
The ear of humility hears beyond the gates.
See the gates opening.
Feel your hands going akimbo on your hips,
your mouth opening like a womb
giving birth to your voice for the first time.
Go singing whirling into the glory
of being ecstatically simple.
Write the poem.

-- Jack Hirschman

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