Sure, she's playing major music festivals now, but in the 2010s, experimental pop musician SPELLLING passed her days at Berkeley just like any other Letters and Science student: by writing disappointing poetry.  'I was mortified every time I walked off stage,' SPELLLING told The Daily Californian of her days with spoken word poetry organization CalSlam. 'It felt like ‘This is wrong, I'm being way too vulnerable.' And I knew this wasn't truly the art that I wanted to express … I think that was my first realization that I could find the courage to share things that are deeply personal and be in front of an audience.

https://www.dailycal.org/2022/08/19/spellling-talks-outside-lands-reorganized-bookshelf/

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