Poet Andrea Gibson dies
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As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson could send a spoken word poem spinning through space and time knowing it would reach its perfect home — swishing to a close in the last lines, nothing but net.
I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.
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A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with thousands of people saying how much comfort it had brought them.
Remembering Andrea Gibson, a poet and activist, who gave the LGBTQ+ community more than poetry. They offered truth and a space where queerness felt safe.
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