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 ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Spoken Word: A Cultural History" (Knopf), Joshua Bennett looks back on the development of this vibrant form of ...

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. By Tas Tobey When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an engaging ...

We recently reviewed briefly, the history of spoken word poetry and the poetry slam internationally, and how they developed in Guyana. There is quite a bit more to that history. It was pointed out ...

This post was updated June 4 at 7:50 p.m. For UCLA’s Department of African American Studies, celebration and remembrance are equally important ahead of Juneteenth. On Wednesday, Royce Hall will ...