In the following video, George Watsky performs his spoken word poem on Def Poetry:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd get so excited at Def Poetry before, but I may remember wrong. Anyway, I liked that humorous poem.What did you think?
The following video shows Lyrical Shaman’s submission, It Is the Screaming, for the 2007 Virtual Online Poetry Slam hosted by Citizens for Globabl Solutions. Last year’s success has prompted another Online Poetry Slam, this time the theme is “Torture”.
I find it great to see spoken word poetry used to raise awareness about torture, and work to stop it. Sadly, under the Patriot Act, the United States now holds even its own citizens as “enemy combatants”, refusing to give them the right to speedy trials, formal charges, and legal representation. So, governments such as and including the U.S. now detain people without charges, disallow them from seeing a lawyer, and then torture them!
What do you think?
In the following video, Saul Williams perform his spoken word poem, Coded Language, at Rock Valley College:
Not the best Saul Williams poem, in my opinion, but definitely up there. What do you think?
In the following video, Arizona Poet, Logan Phillips, performs his spoken word poem, The Sun Said Shine, in Tucson, Arizona
I liked that deep and metaphorical poem. What do you think?
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Dunstan Prial writes that a spoken word group won Microsoft’s small-biz competition:
The Mayhem Poets, three Jersey City-based missionaries for the art of spoken-word poetry, will soon have a headquarters in New York from which to spread their passion, courtesy of Microsoft Corp.
The trio — Kyle Sutton, 27, Mason Granger, 24, and Scott Tarazevits, 26 — was named winner Tuesday of Microsoft’s Ultimate Challenge, a nationwide contest to reward an innovative idea for a small business.
The contest was tied to the release of Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007, the software giant’s latest program for small businesses.
The Mayhem Poets’ concept of a spoken-word cafe to combine workshops, performances and cappuccino won over a panel of judges who pored over nearly 5,000 entries from entrepreneurs across the U.S.
Winning the contest will allow the Mayhem Poets to set down roots and create an environment where spoken-word poetry can be shared among enthusiasts and taught to novices, said Sutton.
I do not know these artists personally, but I feel good about this nonetheless. The group must have some business sense, seeing how they earned a living doing as travel poets before winning the contest.
What do you think?
Three minutes of fast-paced, whip-smart wordsmithing from spoken word artist Rives, who has some unconventional ideas about how the Internet should be run.
Wow! That amazed me. I loved it. With that spoken word poem, Rives mixed humor with poetry better than I’ve ever seen before.
What do you think?
The following video shows Afro DZ AK at Tufts University performing spoken word:
I enjoyed that hip-hop for social change. What did you think?
In the following spoken word video, Kirk Nugent performs his poem, Pursue Your Passion:
This powerful performance motivates and inspires me. I especially like when he says, “live your life or live your excuse.” What do you think?
In the following spoken word video, J.Ivy performs his spoken word poem, I Need to Write, on Def Poetry:
J.Ivy speaks reality! I enjoyed that poem and performance very much. What did you think?