Additional Info Brenna "No Mercy" Twohy performing "The Fisherman Takes The Fish Home & Tells Her He Loves Her" at the Cherokee Man and the Mockingbird graffiti mural at Decatur Station in Decatur, Georgia. Check Brenna out on Twitter! https://twitter.com/brennatwohy Information courtesy, YouTube
Poetry enthusiasts will soon find a new place to fulfill their creative desires with the installation of a Telepoem Booth in downtown State College. Set to open this spring, the Telepoem Booth is an interactive arts exhibition that merges old-fashioned rotary phone technology with various types of poetry, John Ziegler, one of the directors of … Continue reading Telepoem Booth brings poetry exhibition to State College (via Daily Collegian)
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"The BBC makes the best radio in the world," says Director-General Tony Hall. British public broadcaster BBC plans to launch a "Netflix of the spoken word" to take its radio content beyond the U.K. Director-General Tony Hall in a London speech Wednesday said that the BBC plans to offer all of its audio content, in … Continue reading BBC Planning “Netflix of the Spoken Word” to Take Radio Content Global (via The Hollywood Reporter)
Additional Info Poem I wrote called 'I Be Nine' . One of my favorite pieces to perform. Information courtesy, YouTube
Clint Smith is the 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and has given popular TED Talks on living as an African-American man in the United States. Earlier this fall he published his first book of poetry, "Counting Descent." He joins Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about the book. On what sparked his interest in … Continue reading Through Poetry And TED Talks, Clint Smith Probes Racism In America (via WBUR)
Additional Info Every first Monday at CAMP Bar in downtown Saint Paul. Performing at Button Poetry Live, October 2016. Button Facebook: http://facebook.com/buttonpoetry Button Twitter: http://twitter.com/buttonpoetry Button Instagram: http://instagram.com/buttonpoetry Button tumblr: http://buttonpoetry.tumblr.com Information courtesy, YouTube
If you’re not an Instagrammer you may never have heard of Rupi Kaur. In fact, if you’re not a young female Instagrammer, then your chances are probably even slimmer. And yet, with almost 750,000 Instagram followers and more than half a million copies of her debut poetry collection, Milk and Honey, sold worldwide, Kaur is … Continue reading Verse goes viral: how young feminist writers are reclaiming poetry for the digital age (via Guardian)
Additional Info Sierra DeMulder, performing at her book release event. Follow Button on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/SG5Xm0 About Button: Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry. Information courtesy, YouTube
"The Last Poets are the microcosm of black America,” said Umar Bin Hassan, one of the founding members of the group, when I first met him in Harlem, New York, a decade ago. And he’s right: the turbulent and sometimes violent history of this legendary group of African American men who became famous worldwide in … Continue reading The Last Poets: America in poetry from black power to Black Lives Matter (via Guardian)
