Pronouncing Love Right: Ice Cream and Fragile Masculinity | Andru Defeye | TEDxFolsom

Sacramento Poet Laureate Andru Defeye fuses storytelling and spoken word poetry to address fragile masculinity and mental health struggles in a powerful performance of “The Pokey Poem.” Follow @AndruDefeye on Instagram for more poetry and mental health resources. Whether sharing stages with legendary beat poets or your favorite Hip Hop emcees, Andru Defeye’s unorthodox writing and performance style has made him a fixture behind microphones around the country. 2020 saw the release of his critically acclaimed Frequency album followed shortly after by his crowning as the youngest Poet Laureate in California capitol history. In 2021, Defeye was listed by Sacramento Magazine as one of the city’s 100 business leaders and nominated to receive an honorary doctorate from CSUS. In 2022 he joined the ranks of some of the most celebrated poets in the country as an Academy of American Poets fellow and brought Sacramento Poetry Day (October 26th) to life creating a locally sourced curriculum, collection, and contest and bringing it to over 250,000 youth in the Sacramento area. In 2023 these efforts earned him a key to the city making him one of the city’s youngest and only artist recipients of such an honor. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx