October 24 will see Boiler Room and Saul Williams present an evening dedicated to the art of lyricism and spoken word. The London event will see a line-up including Mercury-nominated artist Kate Tempest perform live alongside KLASHNEKOFF, Kojey Radical, and James Massiah. The event will be split into two parts. The first segment will see … Continue reading Boiler Room And Saul Williams Team Up On An Evening Dedicated To Lyricism And Spoken Word (via The Fader)
Robert Pinsky is one of the most famous living poets in America — he once even appeared on an episode of “The Simpsons.” He was the U.S. poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, and he more or less defined the job for everyone who came after him, starting an enormously popular national poetry program and … Continue reading Robert Pinsky’s new poetry collection is considered and timely (via L.A. Times)
The poetic art form of spoken word is hoping to find a home in the community of Chestermere. Local author and spoken word artist Arnold Henry formed the group Word Up Chestermere with his fiancé Stephanie Beninger and the couple are hosting the community’s first spoken word open mic night at North Taphouse Oct. 18. … Continue reading Local group brings the art of spoken word to Chestermere (via Rocky View Weekly)
Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that the Swedish Academy described as “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” He is the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and a groundbreaking choice by the Nobel committee to select the … Continue reading ‘Poetry for the ear’: Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature (via Washington Post)
The BET Hip Hop Awards took place on Oct 4. This article was published on Oct 5. Big K.R.I.T. wasn’t nominated for any BET Hip Hop Awards Tuesday night (Oct. 4), but the Mississippi rapper may have still delivered the most memorable words of the evening, reciting a verse in spoken word form on the loss of black lives … Continue reading Big K.R.I.T. Delivers Powerful Spoken Word at 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards (via XXL)
They are poets and some didn’t even know it. Southington Care Center resident Carol Slauenwhite only just discovered her observations of the outside world have a place on paper. Slauenwhite was one of a half-dozen residents who read their poetry aloud for an audience Sunday at the third annual Timeless Creativity: Art through the Ages … Continue reading Discovering poetry in the autumn of life (via The Bristol Press)
She has been garlanded by everyone from the compilers of the Mercury shortlist to the judges of the Poetry Society’s Ted Hughes prize, but on paper at least, Kate Tempest’s new album still seems like a tough sell. It’s a 48-minute long hip-hop-influenced performance poem about the alienated lives of the residents of one south London street, set to … Continue reading Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos review – pop, poetry and politics collide (via The Guardian)
Yesterday, British prime minister Theresa May gave a speech that set out the post-Brexit government’s worldview—and it was strikingly isolationist. She singled out foreigners, “citizens of the world,” business fat cats, and—by implication—young people, who had voted overwhelmingly in the Brexit referendum for the cosmopolitanism and free movement that EU membership bestowed. The previous day, home secretary Amber Rudd … Continue reading In sadness and shame at their country’s turn against foreigners, some Brits are turning to poetry (via Quartz)
In the midst of a stormy social climate, with race, in many ways, the strongest barometric factor, Columbia artists turned to poetry and dance Wednesday to turn issues, ideas and emotions into words and movement. “They who were there when the rain fell relentless were sure that we won. That we won,” Monifa Lemons Jackson … Continue reading Poetry paints painful, hopeful picture of race in Columbia (via The State)
IN OCTOBER 2014, poet Mark Doty stood onstage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark — the same place where pop stars ranging from Aretha Franklin to Britney Spears have performed — and looked out at a packed house during the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. "I can't tell you how inspiriting it is," … Continue reading Dodge poetry festival returns to Newark (via NJ)
