On the “City Lights” series “Speaking of Poetry,” Atlanta’s most prolific wordsmiths discuss the art of evoking emotions with words. This edition of “Speaking of Poetry” features Spoken Word artist B Rockstar.
“I would describe my poetry as everchanging and yet rooted in ancestry,'” B Rockstar says. “It is constantly seeking a reason to be responsible for something. My poetry always wants to change people and impact them in a positive way.”
B Rockstar started writing poetry as a six or seven-year-old child, but he didn’t call it poetry then because he didn’t like poetry. He called them “emotional notes.” He would leave these notes all over the house for his mother where she could find them.
In his senior year of high school, he had a poetry assignment to write fifteen different types of poems. He completed the assignment the night before and still managed to get an A.
Sometime later in college, he shared a seven-page poem about a break-up with a friend who encouraged him to go to an open mic, and the rest is history.
