Andrea Gibson, Goodbye

It was announced yesterday that the performance poet Andrea Gibson had died from the cancer they were being treated for over the past several years.

Gibson was only 49 years old.

As I wrote back in 2023, both performance poetry and Gibson were new to me. The poem I shared was about chemotherapy, something I had not experienced at the time. 

Now that I have, I see the poem a bit differently — but it's still great. 

I'm happy to live in a country that is home to people like Andrea Gibson. I keep thinking we need more like them, and less like Stephen Miller or a lot of other people with too much power these days.