Jared Singer: How I Learned My ABC's
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“I’ve never met anyone whose name starts with the letter Q so I know I’ll never have to mourn it.” Poet Jared Singer performs "How I learned my ABC's" at the 2012 NYC Urbana Poetry Slam.
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Become a Slam Poet in Five Steps
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In this TED-Ed animated video, poet Gayle Danley artfully explains the five essential elements to becoming an effective slam poet.
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Rigged Game
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“Since when does being a teacher mean having to swear not to help??” Dylan Garity performs “Rigged Game,” his poem about a flawed educational system, at the 2013 National Poetry Slam in Minneapolis, MN.
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Emergency Exit Row
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“I was told to speak up.” Poet Catalina Ferro describes a harrowing seating arrangement aboard an airplane in her poem, “Emergency Exit Row,” at the NYC Urbana Poetry Slam.
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Rubik's Cube
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Poet Benjamin Barker performs his poem, “Rubik’s Cube,” at the 2013 National Poetry Slam in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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OCD
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“She was the first beautiful thing I ever got stuck on.” Poet Neil Hilborn performs his poem, “OCD,” at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam.
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For the Bullied and Beautiful
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Poet Shane Koyczan delivers a performance of "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying that went viral as a video project with eighty different animators earlier this year.
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12-Year-Old Poet
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Kioni "Popcorn" Marshall, who has been writing poetry since the age of five and performing at New York City venues since she was nine, reads her poem "Love."
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Youth Poet Laureate
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Eighteen-year-old Stephanie Yun was recently named Oakland’s first youth poet laureate after winning a competition at the Flor y Canto Festival in San Francisco. The competition was organized by the Oakland Public Library in partnership with Youth Speaks, a nonprofit organization focused on spoken word performance and education.
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Lemon Anderson
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Three-time felon and Tony Award-winning poet and playwright Lemon Anderson starred in Russell Simmons's Def Poetry Jam in 2003, but the resulting money and fame quickly disappeared. Lemon, a new documentary about Anderson by Laura Brownson and Beth Levinson, will have its broadcast premiere on PBS as part of Latino Broadcasting's series Voces on October 19.
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