Saying More with Less: Natalie Bell and Glenn North

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We hear stories about poetry and how it can bring people together. This episode is hosted by Keighly Baron.

Storytellers:

Natalie Bell - Orthodontia and a high school poetry reading lead to awkwardness.

Glenn North - Feeling despondent about moving back to his hometown of Kansas City, MO to take care of a sick parent, a young poet decides to rejuvenate the arts scene with a poetry night.

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0:00.0	Hello, Moth Family. Have you listened to our new podcast, Grown Yet? Grown, that's GROWN,
0:06.1	is a podcast filled with true stories all about the joys and pains of growing up.
0:10.4	Listen with a young person in your life, or by yourself to hear Moth Stories,
0:14.7	storyteller interviews, and audio diaries from young voices that tackle family dynamics,
0:19.6	heartbreak, culture, mental health, and so much more. If you love listening to Moth Stories,
0:25.1	then share Grown with a young person in your life. Find it by searching GROWN on all major podcast
0:32.0	platforms. Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm Kayleigh Barron, the manager of People and Culture at
0:41.3	the Moth, and your host for this episode. At the Moth, we're all about true stories told live.
0:47.0	Stanzas, rhymes, Ravens gently wrapping on chamber doors. Get those out of here. You won't find
0:53.3	free verse in a Moth show. But, even though our hearts are with storytelling, we'll admit that
0:58.4	there's something special about poetry. Lots of Moth hosts and storytellers are poets as well,
1:04.3	and even certain members of the Moth staff have been known to dabble in poetic arts.
1:09.2	And I am no exception. When I think about my relationship to poetry, it used to be the obvious.
1:14.8	Bad poems like really bad poems written at 17, generously forgiven by my English teacher,
1:20.7	Mrs. Diaba, the journal and magazine rejection letters that piled up through college and then the
1:25.9	eventual recognition in a clause. What I think about now, though, more than anything is that,
1:30.8	sometimes when we talk about poetry, we end up talking about the way poetry brings us together
1:35.6	even more than the lines and form itself. So, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we'll be sharing
1:41.1	two Moth stories that touch on the power of poetry. First up is Natalie Bell, who told this at a
1:46.8	Pittsburgh Story slam in 2013, where the theme of the night was Love Hurts. Here's Natalie
1:53.2	Live at the Moth. I was in ninth grade, and this was about four years into a seven-year
2:04.2	stint in orthodontia. And at the time, I had a huge crush on this guy in my English class, Brian,
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