Reading-Poetry-Like-We-Mean-It Freshman Seminar

“My thighs say thunderous. My thighs say too fat for skinny jeans. My thighs say wide, say open. My thighs say cellulite, say tattoo, say stretch marks, say pockmarks, say ingrown hair. My thighs feel upset that you only offered one bite of your Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia,” begins Desireé Dallagiacomo’s poem, “Thighs.”

Dallagiacomo  performed  “Thighs” at the Last Chance Slam at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Austin. Texas.

Reading-Poetry-Like-We-Mean-It students Austin Kimmell, Sara Manfredi, Julie Martin, and Morgan Metcalf  visualized Dallagiacomo’s poem in the video below, setting it on the Mass Art campus.

“Thighs” Film Adapation (2016). Video by Austin Kimmell, Sara Manfredi, Julie Martin, and Morgan Metcalf.