Additional Info All Def Poetry is a new channel brought to you by Russell Simmons - a world-renowned champion of the spoken word art form. Fresh, riveting, and featuring some of the best voices in the genre, All Def Poetry brings you the raw power of spoken word! #AllDefPoetry → CONNECT WITH AMAN BATRA ← https://twitter.com/amankbatra … Continue reading (Video) Alyesha Wise & Aman Batra | Mom
Watch the poem here! An eight-year veteran of Da Poetry Lounge (DPL), the mecca of L.A. slam poetry and spoken word, Yesika Salgado regularly performs her work in front of packed audiences, followers and die-hard fans taking in the artist’s carefully crafted, often bilingual, words, humor, and unfuckwittable self-expression. In addition to being a wordsmith, … Continue reading Fat, Fly, Salvadoran Poet Brings Body Positivity And Brown Girl Love To The Stage (via VIBE)
Additional Info All Def Poetry is a new channel brought to you by Russell Simmons - a world-renowned champion of the spoken word art form. Fresh, riveting, and featuring some of the best voices in the genre, All Def Poetry brings you the raw power of spoken word! #AllDefPoetry → CONNECT WITH YESIKA SALGADO ← https://twitter.com/YesikaStarr … Continue reading (Video) Yesika Salgado | On the Good Days
The great poet W.H. Auden famously — or infamously — observed, “poetry makes nothing happen.” Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, and his life, turn that tired truism neatly on its head. And if the poems didn’t quite make everything happen, they reflected the breadth of Ginsberg’s political sympathies. As Eliot Katz neatly summarizes in the preface to … Continue reading Summer Reading 2016: Poetry–When the Personal is Political (via NJ Spotlight)
Additional Info Sierra DeMulder, performing at the book release for Today Means Amen. 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
If you’re a poet, it’s easy to spend a lot of time worrying about how people feel about poetry. It’s also easy to dismiss how people feel because if you were to consider the blithe indifference with which most audiences actually regard poets and their poems, it would be depressing — and not depressing in … Continue reading Do People Hate Poetry? According to Ben Lerner, Yes (via NY Times)
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Watch the poem here! “I’m deeply aware of the stress that’s put on our community,” artist Carrie Mae Weems states in the video above. “The stress that’s put on black women, the stress that’s put on black men.” “It’s not a play,” she adds. “It’s really this battle.” The “it” in Weems’ sentence refers to one of her … Continue reading Powerful Spoken Word Performance Commemorates The Tragic Deaths Of Black Men (via Huffington Post)
Additional Info Episode #238: A look at artist Carrie Mae Weems staging "Grace Notes: Reflections for Now," a performance that examines the escalating racial tensions across the United States, and the role of grace in the pursuit of democracy. Although known for her work as a photographer, in "Grace Notes" Weems blends spoken word, music, … Continue reading (Video) Carrie Mae Weems | Grace Notes: Reflections for Now
Watch the poem here! Poet Joseph LMS Green said his poem “Hands” has been a work in progress for more than three years. He started writing it after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Although he was horrified by the killing of Martin, he was also dismayed by the reaction on … Continue reading This poet worries about not being able to protect his son from violence (via PBS)
