At today’s class, we were learning how to embed tweets and SlideShare presentations .

As a result, here you have  a tweet and a presentation on Spoken Word Poetry.

In the poem “In This Shade,” poet Shasparay Lighteard shares the pain of dealing with melanin-shaming, and the joy of finally realizing that that melanin was nothing to be ashamed of.

In this short presentation, we have a brief look in the history and importance of the Spoken Word Movement.

To end, I leave you with a quote in the hopes that you may find inspiration in it.

“You’ll find poetry nowhere, unless you bring some of it with you.”   -Joseph Joubert