When he originally auditioned for season 12 in 2017, Brandon didn’t make it to the ‘AGT’ stage. Simultaneously, Brandon worked as a high school teacher, an academic advisor at San Joaquin Delta College, a poetry workshop leader, and a keynote speaker. Eventually, carrying his art forward, he launched his debut album, ‘In My Thoughts,’ in 2016. It is an artist group at his college, Simpson University, which promotes and inspires other artists to showcase their talent to the rest of the world. Before all the fame, Brandon began his career as a poet in 2012, when he founded Called to Move (CTM). It began with him rising from the ghettos of Stockton to ultimately traveling the country as a spoken word poet. If you’re someone who is hooked up to this artist’s journey and wants to know more about his latest whereabouts, we’ve got you covered!īrandon Leake’s America’s Got Talent Journeyīrandon Leake became the first spoken word poet to appear on ‘AGT’ and emerge as the winner. And today, he is an award-winning spoken word poet, creative educator, and motivational speaker who ultimately became the season 15 winner of ‘AGT’. He grew up in Stockton, California, in a single-parent family. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.Brandon grabbed the attention of viewers and judges alike with his exceptional talent in spoken word poetry and amazing narrative abilities. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others.

We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. 100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. Shop Barnes & Noble 100 Poems To Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch online at.

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