Word: spokenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...between. Nasir Jones (aka Nas, aka Nasty Nas, aka Nas Escobar, aka Nastradamus) was one such rapper. Nastradamus, his newest album, cements his reputation as urban troubadour or, as "Come Get Me" announces, "America's foremost young poet." From "The Prediction" to "The Outcome"--prophetic and apocalyptic spoken-word joints from poet Jessica Care Moore--Nas' album is a gritty mural of ghetto life at the turn of the millennium...
...oldest alternative venues for art. Exhibitions by Mobius's own members as well as a range of regional, national and international artists rotate on a three-week schedule, while performances are held regularly on weekends. With art that runs the gamut from sound, video and installation pieces to spoken word and other genre-bending work, expect the unexpected and don't be surprised to stumble upon (and be asked to participate in) the occasional performance piece. Director Jed Speares, staff members and artists are uniformly friendly and welcoming...
...Black Men's Forum Vice President Peter-Charles N. "P.C." Bright '01-'02 said Moore's writing falls within a genre known as spoken word, "a more urban style of poetry...
...themes of her poetry really center around womanhood and sisterhood and female identity," said Bright, who is also co-founder of the Spoken Word Society...
...Christmas present, e-mail a friend or sell a stock, and chances are you are going to click on a piece of Masayoshi Son's empire. You won't know it--and you probably don't know his name--but that's O.K. by Son. Soft-spoken, quick to smile, often cloaked in a slightly rumpled golf sweater, "Masa" Son is the unlikely man who would be emperor of the Internet. He has a 300-year--yes, that's 300-year--plan to invest in so many companies on the Web that no matter what country you're in, whether...