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ALIVE AND WELL (THANK YOU VERY MUCH)

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This was supposed to be an easy “nyah-nyah-nyah” sort of post. My plan was to crow about how, despite multitudinous prognostications to the contrary (all those declarations that “OMG! Poetry is dead, Dead, DEAD”), piling words together and mixing them up continues to flow unabated through the world, continues to move and heal a multitude of hearts, continues to evolve and grow and change even in this, our digitally enhanced post-modern world. No extinction is in sight.

SPOKEN WORD AND BEING HEARD

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In a world of seven billion-plus souls, one of our deepest human needs often goes unfulfilled – the need to be heard. That may be one reason why the Spoken Word movement, once a subculture on the fringes of the mainstream, is gaining widespread acceptance around the world. THE RISE OF SPOKEN WORD “Spoken word poetry” was born in Chicago in 1984, when a construction worker, Marc Smith, started reading poetry at a popular club and encouraged others to join…