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The Room Is on Fire offers an overview of youth spoken word poetry's history, its practitioners, participants, and practices. Susan Weinstein explores its grounding in earlier literary/performance/educational traditions and discusses its particular challenges. In order to analyze these issues, the story of how youth spoken word poetry developed as a field is told through the voices of those involved. Interviewees include the people who organized the first youth poetry slam festivals, the founders of central youth spoken word organizations, and a selection of young people who have participated in their local programs and in regional and national events over the last two decades. Narratives about individual and communal efforts and experiences are supported by analyses of full-text poems by youth poets and by reference to contemporary scholarship in performance studies, critical youth studies, and new literacy studies. Blending history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events, the book will appeal to researchers, teacher educators, and K–12 teachers.

Spoken word poetry. --- Performance poetry. --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Spoken word poems --- Poetry

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The writing and performance of spoken word poetry can create moments of productive critical engagement. In The Fifth Element, Crystal Leigh Endsley charts her experience of working with a dynamic and diverse group of college students, who are also emerging artists, to explore the connection between spoken word and social responsibility. She considers how themes of activism, identity, and love intersect with the lived experiences of these students and how they use spoken word to negotiate resistance and to navigate through life. Endsley also examines the local and transnational communities where performances took place to shed light on concepts of social responsibility and knowledge production.

Social justice --- Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Poetry --- Performance poetry --- Equality --- Justice --- Poetry reading --- Reading poetry aloud --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Study and teaching. --- Social aspects. --- Oral interpretation

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Recalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.--

Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Performance poetry --- Poetry --- Recitation(Education) --- Social aspects. --- Study and teaching. --- Johnson, E. Pauline, --- Hughes, Langston, --- Bennett, Louise, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Poetry slams --- Performance poetry --- Teenagers' writings, American --- Language arts (Secondary) --- American teenagers' writings --- American literature --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Slams, Poetry --- Poetry --- History and criticism. --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Competitions

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Given the increasing popularity of literary festivals, open mics, and poetry slams, one could justifiably claim that the English-speaking world is currently experiencing a 'Live Poetry' boom. Yet, despite this raised awareness for the aesthetic and social potential of performed poetry, academia has barely responded, failing in the process to update and adapt its concept of poetry to meet these recent developments.Bridging this critical gap, this volume provides for the first time a full methodological 'toolkit' for the analysis of live poetry by drawing together approaches from diverse disciplines concerned with speech and forms of cultural performance.Most notably, these include literary studies, paralinguistics, musicology, kinesics, theatre and performance studies, and folklore studies. This innovative methodology is demonstrated through sample analyses based on a mixed corpus of audio and video recordings of poetry performances, as well as on personal interviews with practitioners of live poetry. Of value to the scholar and poetry enthusiast alike, this volume presents an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding and analysing poetry's evolution through its current 'spoken word' renaissance.

Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Performance poetry. --- Performance art. --- Arts, Modern --- Happenings (Art) --- Performing arts --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Poetry --- Poetry reading --- Reading poetry aloud --- Oral interpretation --- English poetry --- Poetry, Modern --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism. --- Modern poetry --- English literature --- Poésie anglaise --- Poésie anglaise --- Poésie --- Theory, etc --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Lecture en public. --- Poésie