Listening to his stories, over and over again, kindled in her a love for the spoken word. "Later, I started listening to ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an ...

Spoken word poetry has gained popularity nationwide ... I chose a poem by renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. In his famous poem “Mother to Son,” Hughes compares the challenges ...

This essay was adapted from Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf). Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a “language game” (to use Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous term ...

Browne as its first poet-in-residence in 2021; the fame of “Instapoet” Rupi Kaur beginning in 2013; the Grammys’ new best spoken word poetry album category; and even spoken-word poet Brandon ...

Spoken word, also known as slam poetry, often incorporates performance ... At 92 years old; Cavalieri fashioned her voice after famous women throughout history. From 18th century women's rights ...

Spoken Word Poetry has been around for millennia. The advent of language, which conservative estimates put at about 60,000 years ago, made it natural for oral tradition to become man’s primary ...

(Elijah Decious/The Gazette) Welcome to the “mid-leagues” — a new space bridging the divide between amateurs and professionals in spoken word poetry, comedy, singing and other performance ...

IOWA CITY — For Rudy Francisco, one of the most widely known spoken word artists in modern poetry, it started with a feeling. When he first saw a spoke word poem performed, he knew exactly what ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war ...