The Boston Globe

Joshua Bennett traces the history of spoken word poetry from cafes to slams to screens in ‘Spoken Word’

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...
Capital Public Radio

A high school spoken-word club changed students' lives. Now, you can read their poems

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...
PBS

SOCIAL JUSTICE through SPOKEN WORD

Spoken word artists perform with hip hop stars at the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival. During the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), iconic spoken word artists ...
Rolling Stone

Watch T.I.’s Powerful Spoken Word Poem on Apathy in Digital Age

T.I. has remained outspoken about injustices towards black youth, especially in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s murder and the uprising in Ferguson. During Saturday’s 2015 Triumph Awards, his spoken ...
The Boston Globe

Andrea Gibson, spoken-word artist who poignantly wrote about gender and a terminal diagnosis, dies at 49

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson could send a spoken word poem spinning through space and time knowing it would ...