Emily Joy

https://emilyjoypoetry.bandcamp.com

Emily JoyEmily Joy is a spoken word poet and Midwest native currently residing in Nashville, TN. She makes her living as a freelance writer and traveling poet. Emily is passionate about challenging the status quo of the universe through art and empowering people, especially women, to pursue justice, speak their truths and ask hard questions.All Prodigal Daughters & Sons, released 13 July 20151. Intro by Micah J. Murray2. All Prodigal Daughters & Sons3. Thank God I'm A Virgin4. The Last Poem5. Extraordinary6. You Are Not A Princess7. Monster god8. Shut Up & Sing9. Happiness10. Everything Must BurnShaking your fist at God and man can be intensely satisfying—for a while. But when the dust settles and your anger becomes an exhausting muse, what then? How do you move forward with the vestiges of a faith that has been picked apart until it is barely recognizable as your own? What does it look like to face our corporate complicity in the oppression of the world and resolve to do better in a meaningful way? And is it possible to continue to believe that God is at work in it all?These are the questions out of which All Prodigal Daughters and Sons is being born. Since my first spoken word album, I’ve changed my mind and changed it again on a dozen different topics and deconstructed my faith so thoroughly there were times I wondered if it would survive. Coming face to face with the darkness not just in your communities and your churches but in your very own soul is a very difficult thing to do. And I’m by no means finished.But for me, the time for fist-shaking and wound-licking and mourning and lament is over. The time for rebuilding and rebuking and fighting for the light has begun.All Prodigal Daughters and Sons will be a full length album of spoken word poetry matched with all-original music, dealing with topics such as church, romance, rejection, sexuality, feminism, doubt, oppression, and more. It is my hope that this project will, as the old saying goes, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable—that it will inspire those who hear it to greater depths of faith and doubt than they have known.

Category: Books & Literature

City: Nashville

State: Tennessee

Country: United States of America (US)

Currency : USD

Platform: Bandcamp

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