Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Poet Regie Gibson Performs @ WHS


(FYI THIS PERFORMANCE IS TAKEN FROM YOUTUBE AND NOT DONE AT WHS)

WHO IS REGIE GIBSON?

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF HIS PERFORMANCE YESTERDAY?

WHAT CAN YOUR REMEMBER ABOUT HIS VIEWS ON POLITICS, WOMEN, LIFE, AND ART?

18 comments:

Unknown said...

Regie Gibson is a poet who came to WHS yesterday and performed poetry for us.

I liked his performance a lot and found it interesting how he used different types of poetry, in song form and just reading it with so much emotion you could imagine the things that he was saying.

He's a democrat, he loves women, he also loves his life and treasures it, and well his poetry is his art, he changes how it sounds with his different emotions and or instruments and different ways of sharing it with us.

tori said...

Regie Gibson is a poet who has an amazing talent and came to perform at our high school. I thought that Regie's performance was great and it seemed he had a lot of fun performing for us. Regie said that he is a democrat and that he loves women. He said women is the reason why he started to write poetry.

Keith said...

Regie Gibson is a writer, performer, and entertainer. His performance yesterday (both of them) were extremely entertaining and very insightful. The thing that stuck out the most in my head, was his description of a pool table and playing it. Another thing that stood out about him was the way he spoke outside of his performance. He was very similar, and the fluidity with the way he spoke was amazing, and something I would love to learn, god knows I can't even type correctly. Very cool guy, with a very interesting outlook on the world.

Unknown said...

Regie Gibson's performance yesterday was very fun and entertaining I had a lot of fun listening to him because he really expressed himself in many ways like singing, dancing, reciting poems. I don't really remember his view on politics beside the fact that hes a democrat but I remember him talking about how woman are his life and he got into poetry because of woman and that poetry became an art to him.

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Unknown said...

Regie Gibson is a poet, musician, and more. All of his professions revolve around his love for words, and how he uses them to invoke certain thoughts in the listener's head.
Regie's performance yesterday was amazing. Each reading he did was just as passionate and meaningful as the last one. Regie captivated the audience through his unique diction and rhythm. He was by far one of the best poets I have ever heard.
After hearing Regie perform, I learned that he is really able to show his views on life through his poetry. His poetry told us that he is very passionate about women, that he does not like Pres. Bush, and more. That knowledge we can gain from hearing his poetry really shows how great a poet he is.

E-45th said...

Regie Gibson is poet from Chicago, and performs music with his band. Mr. Gibson's performance was excellent yesterday. His vocals and speech were great, his body movements along with his poetry were well given, and his experiences with life explaining his work. Mr. Gibson's motivation mostly came from women. Women sparked his ideas along with his detailed vocabulary he uses to express and describe subjects he plans to write about.


WHAT CAN YOUR REMEMBER ABOUT HIS VIEWS ON POLITICS, WOMEN, LIFE, AND ART?

Kosta said...

Regie gibson is a well established poet. I have never heard anyone perform poetry before, and yesterday was a great experience. I was very impressed by how Mr. Gibson was able to memorize all those lines and express them with passion. The way he expressed his words put images in my mind as he spoke.

I remember him saying that women love a man who knows how to talk, and poetry is a way to get digits from chicks. Now to think of it, he refused to go on a boat ride with two guys in venice, and paid for the woman to go. I guess he really likes girls.

molly said...

Regie Gibson is a amazing poet and yesterday he came to my school to perform a few of his pieces.


The thing the I liked the most about him is that he was very real and he wasn't afraid to speak his mind and you can tell that he put a lot of effort into his pieces ,I think a lot of people thought his work was very funny . I enjoyed it very much and I'm pretty sure everyone else .


I loved the he spoke about women in all his poems and i found it interesting , I thought it was pretty cool . ((((:

Rose said...

Reggie Gibson is a poet with great talent.He came to the WHS yesterday to perform for us.
I thought his performance was great. I like how he used different ways to read his poetry other than just reading it. He was a talented singing and drummer as well and he had many great stories to tell. Regie talked a lot about how much he loved women, and he mentioned he was a democrat also.
Regie was not only a talented poet. but talented at performing it all that kept everyone entertained, from the singing, to the instruments, to his jokes and stories. He always seemed so happy to be doing what he does.

Earthquakes said...

Regie Gibson is a deep poet, who was able to come to Watertown High School yesterday and perform for us.

I was really impressed by his performance yesterday, and when he was being interviewed, he was replying with very deep answers. Whenever he was responding, or performing, you could feel the emotions that he was trying to put out.

Regie told us that he loves woman, and he is a democrat. He also can perform with some instruments, and can tell jokes. He loves life, and treasures it.

Imp said...

Regie Gibson is an accomplished poet who visited our school to perform poetry and inspire us.

I thought his performance was great and he was very funny at times. He used music as a way to express poetry and his emotions were really believable.

He is a democrat, he performed a very comical poem focusing on George Bush's faults. He also loves women, they are one of the reasons he became a poet. He really respects art in music or written form.

Unknown said...

Regie Gibson is a poet and a writer who came to visit the high school.

I liked his performance he kept me very interested in what he was doing and overall i really liked his poetry.
In his poetry there was just so much emotion that it kept you very interested and wanting to hear more.

Regie is a democrat, he loves women and many women close to him including his daughter, have inspired many of his poems.

Unknown said...

Regie Gibson is a very talented poet who came and performed at WHS yesterday.

I thought his performance was very good and interesting. His poems were amazing, you could tell that he spent a lot of time thinking about them.

One thing i remember was he enjoyed women very much and loves his family very much. Also he expresses his emotion in different ways for example, poems and music

Unknown said...

Reggie Gibson is a poet that came to perform at WHS yesterday. He is a very different type of poet, performing with a band, and incorporating song into his poems. I really enjoyed his performance yesterday. I am a rapper, but his performance helped me remember poetry was my first love in terms of writing. His views on politics seemed to lean more towards liberal, but he stressed that he didn't believe in labels and categories. He spoke truthfully and respectfully about women. He spoke very candidly about life. Not leaving out what was deemed unacceptable by society, but not indulging in the negative of humankind. He seemed very open about his art and others art, not being timid about his new found interest in Celtic music and Alaskan indegenous chanting music. A Great Poet.

ariana said...

Regie Gibson is a performer and poet. I thought his performance yesterday was very interesting. i liked the way he rhymed, not every line but just randomly thrown in for effect. I also liked the way he performed it. He half spoke and half sang.

I remember he liked all kinds of art. His taste is music was very broad. He seemed like he would be a liberal, and in the video he said a war was supposedly fought for peace. I remember that women interested him, and inspired him.

Chris said...

Regie Gibson is a poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator.He has has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries.

I liked his performance and his point of view for the world. His poetry was highly intellectual and full of emotions. I was usually lost when he talked about the world on his point of view.

He has a likes women, which can be showed from some of his poetic works. He wrote about his wife and children. He also says that he is a Democrat.

MalcolmCookeWHS said...

It's awesome to see all of your comments about Regie Gibson! Thanks for creating this blog.

What I liked best about Gibson's performance yesterday was his passion. He threw himself into his poems, speaking to the rhythm of his self-created beats, filling his poems with personalities such as DJ, preacher, rebel, Romeo and George W. Bush while talking about universal experiences--loss, rage, attraction and peace. Thanks to Ms. Ventura and to all of you for going the extra mile! --Mr. Cooke