Spoken Word
 

Ever since I first saw Medusa & Arwen perform spoken word a few years back, I have been hooked. The rawness takes me on a rollercoaster of emotions, and often leaves me speechless.

Thanks to the wonderful world of the internet, we have access to hundreds of different styles and topics of spoken word, and I thought that we could share our favorite ones here.

Great thread Pinky!!!
 

THANK YOU to tuffboi29 for posting this in the What are you listening to thread...

Scratch and Dent Dreams
 

My favorite....



I entered a slam poetry competition a few months back, and even though I came in second place the experience was worth a million smiles. Spoken word is awesome!

Women Deserve Better - Sonya Renee

*this is probably my favorite of all time




[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLL6Zqc-Qo"]YouTube- What Women Deserve[/nomedia]

Alysia Harris... fuckin' amazing!

Steve Connell is UH-mazing. He and my cousin are the best of friends...and when I was visiting family in LA a number of years ago, I went to an event he was performing in.

He Blew.Me.Away.



He performs alot with Sekou - also amazing.

This is very exciting :)

Saul Williams | Def Jam Poetry | "Coded Language"
 

Daddy's Parking Lot Sermon



6 Tips for How to be a Straight Girl

Christopher Michael - I saw this guy perform at the 2006 International Poetry Slam. He got 2nd place.





I haven't seen any more of his stuff since then.

I heart Alvin Lau.

He was at the 2006 and 2007 International Poetry Slams in Austin, but I don't remember where he ended up placing in either.



This one's fun:

Neruda - en espanol!
 

(subtitulos en ingles)

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: Sylvia Plath
 

I came across a channel on YouTube - The Philoctetes Center Channel - they offer many wonderful videos, truly a labor of love... The video below is almost two hours long, but it's about Sylvia Plath and her poetry.

"Love at first sight"
 

John trudell ::: Lucky Motel
 

I"ve been meaning to post....
 

OMG....I :heartbeat: alix :drool:

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq7UGe5zkWE&feature=related"]YouTube- Unsteady Things[/nomedia]

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xjYq1tCbO8&feature=related"]YouTube- "Womyn Before" Alix Olson (Def Poetry)[/nomedia]

(ok, how do I post the windows instead of just the link? Anyone?)

You want to copy just the portion of the youtube url to the right of the equal sign. (And to the left of the "&" sign if there is one)

For example, the "Unsteady Things" url is:

[nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[/nomedia]Bq7UGe5zkWE&feature=related

You want to copy out this (the bolded) part: Bq7UGe5zkWE

Then you want to click the red and white YouTube icon just above the text box, and that will insert the youtube code. You want to then paste the part of the address you copied between the two bracketed codes. your code will look like this, except it will show brackets instead of parenthesis:

(YOUTUBE)Bq7UGe5zkWE(/YOUTUBE)

Here are your poems. :)

Unsteady Things



Women Before



PS. I love these :)

Marlon Evans - Native American Poet
 

Villanelle For Our Time
Written by Frank Scott
Read by Leonard Cohen

...~* Dwayne Morgan *~...
 

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Lenelle Moise (We Alive)
 

Taylor Mali
 

On What Teachers Make



Totally Like Whatever



The The Impotence Of Proofreading

Ani DiFranco (My IQ)
 

Eve Ensler ~ Embrace Your Inner Girl ~
 

~Embrace Your Inner Girl~

Eve Ensler