for example, Akilah muses about being heard within the Nashville community. “Nashville, why you never cared for me/I am giving you my all but you won’t hear from me,” he raps. “Couple of people living so evil/didn’t want to hear me out. Couple of people living deceitful/they gonna hear me now/they gonna hear my sound.”ContentView Iframe URL on January 23. This mantra may become familiar during the Trump years, as citizens of all regions and political ideologies suffer from federal apathy toward environmental destruction. It is one that residents of Great Lakes states, who voted for Trump, may also utter if their access to clean water disappears. Glastonbury Festival, an annual five-day musical festival in Somerset, England, just confirmedEd Sheeran merges poetry and young-adult fiction, with a heroine named Xiomara who finds confidence and acceptance through slam poetry. Acevedo’s own work is clearly also a place of solace: “You call them wild curls/ I call them breathing/ ancestors spiraling/ can’t you see them in this wet hair that waves like hello” she affirms in “Hair,” a piece that proclaims the beauty of waves and curls and the refusal to succumb to practices in order to make it more white adjacent. Watching her perform her poetry truly feels like seeing and listening to a sermon you never knew you needed until the last line is spoken.ContentView Iframe URLLet us slide into your DMs.Sign up for theTeen Voguedaily emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out: