“Meet Victoria Smith, a High School junior who discusses incorporating spoken word into the high school curriculum and generalizing communication and vulnerability amongst the people. She shares her ideas about bringing the poets out of teens without creating the next Shakespeare.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but…
“Tanaka Mhishi is a survivor of male rape, and has written a play about his experiences. In order to help the actor playing him in the stage show, Tanaka composed this poem, ‘The Conversation’, to capture some of what it means to live with the trauma of sexual assault.” For information and support in the…
A spoken word poet uses her art to help rehabilitate incarcerated youths. A fiercely determined female with a strong voice is taking spoken word poetry by storm. Known as PoeticSoul, this Lafayette, Louisiana, native wants to encourage others to never give up, stand up, be fearless and be heard. Poetic has worked as a teaching…
Mariposa’s, “Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah Or Broken Ends Broken Promises,” deals with issues of hair for AfroLatinas in society.
This week’s spoken word poem is about being multiracial/ Afro Latino. It’s a poetry reading- a spoken word about life, and not feeling accepted into the races/cultures you are a part of.
There is something enlivening, mystical, and hard about slam poetry. The beats, the cadence drives my head to move in unison. It pokes me to shuffle my feet. The poets can spit their words so quickly that I have to strain to keep up. I grew up before Rap Music so I have never developed…
There is something about listening to these young voices that give us hope. Listen and be proud that there is honesty in the youth and their vision of the present and future.
Denice Frohman at The Pigeon Presents: The Philadelphia Poetry Slam
