Album cover for The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids. Raymond Antrobus was born deaf. When he came to poetry, much of his work was built on the history and foundations of poetry slams and spoken word ...

We recently reviewed briefly, the history of spoken word poetry and the poetry slam internationally, and how they developed in Guyana. There is quite a bit more to that history. It was pointed out ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...

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 engaging ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Spoken Word: A Cultural History" (Knopf), Joshua Bennett looks back on the development of this vibrant form of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In between the transition of tracks one and two, I fire off ...

April is National Poetry Month, and there is no better way for ASU students to celebrate than watching and performing spoken word poetry in the Valley. Pinna Joseph, the community events manager for ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Kent County students and their teachers are learning that spoken word poetry is an excellent way to engage a class, to bring the text of a subject to life, and to encourage student ...

The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids aims to make sound more inclusive for listeners by broadening the way in which we experience it. Raymond Antrobus uses spoken word poetry to portray a diverse ...

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