Nasheed Bridgeman Biography

I had an absolutely great time at the Senior Slam. I never thought I would enjoy listening to poems, as much as I did. My impression of the event, before attending was that I was going to be bored, but instead it was entertaining and I can definitely see myself attending many more poetry events like this in the future. The poems really resonated in me and made a profound impact with how I see my friends, classmates and myself. I am really close to Dante Lopresti and Nasheed Bridgeman and to be hundred percent honest, I never knew they had the abilities to write beautiful poems like they displayed during the Senior Slam. Dante’s poem talked about his experience at our yearly football trip to Mercersburg. I was on the trip with him and I never once thought that he was going to write about that experience. Nasheed’s poem focused on how his attitude and personality progressed over his four years at Gonzaga. He used specific examples like how he used to fight with his fellow teammates in practice, which I had experienced as a player on his team. This year I saw the improved personality of Nasheed Bridgeman and I agree with him that his change has made him a better person. This experience definitely helped me see my close friends like Nasheed Bridgeman, Kyle Taylor and Dante Lopresti in a totally new light.
In Walter Hill’s second poem, a member in the audience asked the question “why am I here”? This question helped open the poem; I never knew that a poet could interact with the audience as part of the poem. I knew that all poems don’t need to follow traditional rules like strict iambic pentameter and restricted topics as we saw in many poems we have read this year, but Walter’s poem really displayed that a poem can be written however the poet pleases. Liam Wholihan wrote an acrostic poem which was also ery different than I have encountered in the