Spoken Word Poetry
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