Spoken Word Saturday is a showcase of the amazing Spoken Word Poetry talent that can be found from coast to coast. You can find a playlist of Spoken Word Saturday curations on the League’s Youtube channel!

Sean G. Meggeson

“Post Pasolini Soma-Synthesis Elegy,” a drone collage in five parts

Selected by juror Adeena Karasick, Sean G. Meggeson is the winner of the 2024 LCP Spoken Word Award. Of his poem, Adeena wrote: “With nuanced dynamism, wit and gravitas, Sean G. Meggeson’s extraordinary, “Post Pasolini Soma-Synthesis Elegy: A Drone Collage in 5 Parts,” fearlessly highlights language as a montage of shattered light, madness and healing –offering a model for thinking about alternative modes of communication and poetic innovation. Caressing the language of Pier Paolo Pasolini, psychotherapy and pop culture, sonically woven with linguistic, symbolic, social, personal and historical interventions, Meggeson’s masterwork unfolds as a deliciously textural play of absurdist mashups, porous aporias, paradox and desire; reminding us how the intralingual mingling of otherness and defamiliarity, fragmentation and collage, can foster new ways of thinking about language, history, religion, and inclusiveness in the midst of anxiety and trauma. Nomadic and diasporic; a celebration of polyphonic empowerment, promise and possibility.”

The League recommends reading the poet’s artist statement on the poem for additional context.

Sean G. Meggeson lives in Toronto, Canada, where he works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He has written and lectured on such topics as Lacan & James Joyce, neurodiversity, and interspecies intersubjectivity. His poems have been published in various online and print journals. His chapbook, Cosmic Crasher and Other Poems has been published by Buttonhook Press, 2024. Meggeson received an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Denver in 1996.

Click here out more about the LCP Spoken Word Award 2024 winners.

---