Poetic Women

Part of being a woman is the strength and experiences shared by women throughout history. This was the topic of the LBCC Poetry club's poetry reading last week.

March is National Women’s History month. On March 2, a Tuesday afternoon, the LBCC Diversity Center along with the LBCC Poetry Club, held a poetry reading in honor of the occasion. Students and faculty alike joined together to share poems about and by women. The adviser of the poetry club, Robin Havenick, opened the reading by welcoming everyone and then reading a poem from “American Sublime” by Elizabeth Alexander.

About 20 people attended the event, most read works by women poets, while some read works of their own. One notable attendee was Coquille Rex. She read her poem “I too,” which was inspired by Langston Hughes poem by the same title. It was Coquille’s poem that won a recent competition here at LBCC called Poetry for the Mind’s Joy. Her poem will now go up against others from across the nation for a chance to be published in the Library of Congress.

“We are extremely proud of Coquille and her poem,” said Havenick. “We wish her all the luck at the next level.”

The poetry reading lasted just under an hour, and was closed by Havenick after her final poem titled “Ode” by Elizabeth Alexander.