Word: spokenly
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What do you find rewarding about performing spoken word? What motivates you to perform such personal...
...Spoken word is so noncompetitive! People who come to spoken word events tend to be very supportive people who are interested in other people’s lives. To quote the title of a Spoken Word Society open mic event, reading poetry is about “speaking life”. I love how I can get up in front of a group of strangers, speak from my own point of view and realize that the themes of humanity woven through the poetry allows everyone in the room to relate in their own way to what I am saying...
Describe your creative process in conceiving of a theme for spoken word compositions. Do you have any quirky creative practices...
...don’t know what I would consider most inspiring, but I do love Spoken Word Monday night writing workshops—it’s open to everyone and we have time to reflect, think about the past week, do a writing exercise and get feedback from other people about our writing. It’s all students, it’s rejuvenating and I love...
Earlier this school year, I performed a piece at the Harvard Foundation’s Complexities of Color event that felt like a turning point for me in terms of my poetry. The piece incorporated singing, narrative, Hebrew, Ewe (one of the major languages spoken in Ghana), and English. I had been missing Ghana, where I lived for part of last year, and I felt so much calmer once I figured out how to express my feelings...