2 POEMS (Hillside Inside Festival)

While in his final month of 2021, Braeden decided to take a poetry workshop with Hillside Festival and Canada’s former Poet Laureate, George Eliott Clarke. Through the combination of weekly zoom meetings, and weird divine inspiration, Braeden ended up writing and sharing 2 poems as part of the class. He was quite proud of the poem and was starting to dream up the best way to share them with a larger audience…

To his surprise, Hillside Festival emailed Braeden following the workshop asking if he’d put them together as an online performance as part of their online Winter Festival. So he did. The poems only lived for a weekend on the festival’s channels, and now they exist here as a sacred memento of the time things wen’t incredibly and unexpectedly well for Braeden’s poetry debut.