Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...
Spoken word poetry is a form of writing so vivid, so alive, that to confine it to the page saps it of half its life’s blood. The performers all brought something to their acts that transformed the ...
From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an engaging ...
Poetry has immense reverberating power. Verse has that ability: We keep snippets and sections of it in our minds, carry our favorite poem’s lines with us like pendants, thinking on them in our time of ...
The Civil Rights movement was about brave deeds and bold words. Both are explored by US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and PBS NewsHour Correspondent Jeffrey Brown in the latest of their reports on ...
Many of the most memorable poems ever written came from daily life. When we write about ourselves, we are on familiar ground. A poem is the most concise way of expressing what we want to say. It can ...
Mic Check Poetry Fest in Iowa City offers workshops for writers of all types and ages, in addition to spoken word poetry performances. (Mic Check Poetry Fest) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio ...
As a poet, Erin Dorney is a bit of a magician. She can make airy poems appear from the dense text of an obscure ornithology book or create illuminating epiphanies from the canned answers a jaded ...
LEAPING OFF THE PAGE: "Instead of asking what a poem means, we ask, 'How would you perform this poem?'" says Poetry Alive! founder Bob Falls. Recent performers, above, brought poetry to life at WB ...
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