BODY ALL PEARLS: A SPOKEN WORD COLLECTION
“EVERYONE WANTS A TIGHT PUSSY” | “SAPIOSEXUALS ARE SAUGUIVORES CHANGE MY MIND” | “LIFE SAVINGS” | “MEDUSA CALLS THE RAPE CRISIS LINE” | “PATIENT”
Written and Performed by Cassandra Myers
Premiered at JAYU 2024 Festival of the Arts
| Official Selection |
LA International Poetry Film Festival
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
Directed by Sofía Auza
Filmed in Nahua (Mexico) and Tkaronto (Toronto)
This project is funded by the Ontario Arts Council, Indigenous Services Canada, National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health, and H.E.A.L. Healthcare
“EVERYONE WANTS A TIGHT PUSSY” (2024) premiered at JAYU 2024 Festival of the Arts, and will be making its international premiere at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2025 as an official selection.
“SAPIOSEXUALS ARE SANGUIVORES CHANGE MY MIND ” (2024) first appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, Vol. 45, The Summer Issue, 2023.
“LIFE SAVINGS”(2024) first appeared in Foglifter Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2024.
“MEDUSA CALLS THE RAPE CRISIS LINE” (2024) first appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Issue 95, Summer, 2021. It received the Reader’s Choice Award.
It received a GOLD Award in Poetry from the National Magazine Awards (2022). You can read the poem here.
“PATIENT” (2024) premiered at JAYU 2024 Festival of the Arts, and will be making its international premiere at the LA International Poetry Film Festival as an official selection.