Ep 17: "The Poet Garden" with Gayle Danley

Meet Gayle Danley, epic world-famous performance poet and educator! I could not believe that I got to have this conversation with one of my poetry heroines!! We talk mothers and motherhood, poetry, teaching, life and so much more.  She is starting an agency to help performance poets get gigs and to support themselves with their craft.

Gayle Danley's Bio:
Soon after crushing the competition at Asheville's National Poetry Slam in 1994, Gayle Danley entered America's classrooms teaching thousands of children how to access their emotions through the force of words. She performed and taught her way from Maryland Young Audience's Artist of the Year, to National Young Audience's Artist of the Year. She's also both a former national and international poetry slam champion.
CBS 60 Minutes profiled her work with middle schoolers as well as the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post and New York Times.
For the past five years, Gayle's Grieffriend sessions have helped women who are living with AIDS, widows, incarcerated youth and those struggling with drug addiction and recovery use poetry to cope and bravely face life's challenges.

Gayle was recently named Maryland Library Association Poet of the Year.

Fun Fact! She is a line sister to VP Elect Kamala Harris!! (How cool is that??)

You can find Gayle here:
Poetry/Speaker Website: http://gayledanleypoet.com/
Organization Website: http://grieffriend.org/
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gayledanley
http://www.instagram.com/poetrypros1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gail.danley.9

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