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Poetry & Performance

Poetry that incorporates aspects of performance, such as slam poetry, video poems, and staged works.

Showing 1-20 of 21 results
  • Poem
    By Petra Kuppers
    Author’s Note: The video is the poem: the experience of voice, light and shadow, the (virtual) touch of the water...
  • Poem
    By Ruth Ellen Kocher
    Download the descriptive transcript. we were joy junkies riding coal waste on old mining roads. the ...
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    In October of 1871, the oldest University in Nashville TN, teetered on the brink of collapse. To survive, Fisk University staked its last $40 on a set of field hymns...
  • Poem
    By The Cyborg Jillian Weise
    Access to the video sonnet without audio description. Download the descriptive transcript. Begin. A ...
  • Poem
    By The Cyborg Jillian Weise
    Access the video sonnet without audio description. Download the descriptive transcript. First frame:...
  • Poem
    By The Cyborg Jillian Weise
    Access the video sonnet without audio description. Download the descriptive transcript. Begin. Cutting...
  • Poem
    By The Cyborg Jillian Weise
    Access the video sonnet without audio description. Download the descriptive transcript. She texts me...
  • Poem
    By Josh Alex Baker
    I ask when is the last time you returned yourself to yourself. I am a hypocrite to make you answer what...
  • Poem
    By Voice Porter
    For nothing more than the Love of my people I fight staying my path honoring the ancestors dragging ...
  • Poem
    By Darius V. Daughtry
    a poem cannot save a life cannot Luke Cage your skin fend off a dark alley attack cannot make you less...
  • Poem
    By Amorette "Epiphany" Lormil
    I’ve parked parts of an 8-knot tongue somewhere in my breath My glottal effect be global Sound like ...
  • Poem
    By Xaire
    I often hear of roses grown from concrete— forgive me if I find it difficult to celebrate the bloom....
  • Poem
    By Nyah Hardmon
    My nana be born caterpillar, but she didn’t stay that way. How silly it is to live a beginning so different...
  • Poem
    By Ashlee Haze
    the pastor says we are having church and I begin to wonder what it means to possess a thing you cannot touch I...
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