Arizona State Press

Students find healing through spoken-word poetry

Spoken-word poetry allows artists involved to find comfort through expressing themselves in their community. ASU students will have their own opportunity to find peace through their voice as the ...
Refinery29

10 Spoken Word Poems You Need To Hear

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...
recordnet

‘Decks stacked against you’: How Stockton spoken word poet became an unlikely star

Stockton’s Brandon Leake honed his craft at open mic nights on the campus of a small Christian college in Redding, on slam poetry teams, in high school classrooms and wherever else he could. Raised by ...
Los Angeles Times

A Stockton spoken word poet became an unlikely reality television star

This morning we’ll be taking a brief break from the usual coronavirus and wildfire apocalypse programming to talk about a poet from the Central Valley, and his unlikely journey into millions of living ...
WLRN

A high school spoken-word club changed students' lives. Now, you can read their poems

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...
PBS

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Growing up in San Antonio, Ariana Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself -- an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family -- both in her community and literature. For ...
Columbus Dispatch

How a spoken-word poet became an unlikely reality-TV star on 'America's Got Talent'

LOS ANGELES — Have you heard about the poet from the Central Valley and his unlikely journey into millions of living rooms? Brandon Leake honed his craft at open-mic nights on the campus of a small ...
Gov

Young Sarangans use spoken word poetry to revitalize local literature

Members of the Sarangani Writers League (SWL) bonded together for a face-to-face ‘Bigkas Sarangani’ after an almost three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bigkas Sarangani is a form of spoken ...
Los Angeles Times

In Cameroon’s civil war, spoken-word poets speak the unspeakable

BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing a sheet-covered form on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: ...
The Hoya

Poetry Speaks in D.C.

Angela Williams (COL ’17) has not always been a poet. Though she often journaled in high school, it was not until her sophomore year, when she attended a meeting of Corpus Collective, Georgetown’s ...
The Florida Times-Union

Free Flow: Three Jacksonville spoken word artists are a 'trinity of poetry'

One wants to tell stories in a new way. Another lets her poems act as a teacher. The third is OK if you think his art is rough around the edges. Each believes we all have stories in us and that spoken ...
PBS

Hilot and Spoken Word Poetry

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