Akua, Jeanann Verlee & Sarah Kay perform "Constitution"

Sarah Kay, Akua Doku, and Jeananne Verlee perform their spoken word poem "Constitution",

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Jeanann
• Verlee
• Akua
• Doku
• Sarah
• Kay
• Spoken
• Word
• Urbana

[Brandynoel16]

this was amazing, it gave me goosebumps, chills, made me rethink everything about the country, which i guess is what great poetry is all about!

[smiflatrice]

I like this this was clever!

[commonwealpanther]

What is it about spoken word that continually affects us? I have not yet been desensitized to its effect.

[sookala]

Mindblowing.

[lapetitebichee]

sooo relevant to the occupy movement

[Djemps]

@ghostid I'm not sure what you are talking about when you say I use Wikipedia for videos. Can you clarify?

[ghostid]

@Djemps The video description actually says it's a spoken word poem. You use Wikipedia for videos so why not use it for this? Poetry, Spoken Word, and Poetics may be keywords of choice in your searches :-)

[Djemps]

@ghostid I cast the net pretty wide when it comes to poetry as a 'literary' art, as you yourself called it. But I'm confused about where the literary aspect is. Honestly, my only issue with the entire thing is that the video description calls it a poem. Its an exciting and engaging performance. Maybe someone can post a transcript and then you can point out its literary merits.

[ghostid]

@Djemps I think the issue you're having is the fact that you expect your personal thoughts and taste to be used to classify poetry when it's clearly a much wider literary art than you are willing to accept. I'm glad you found it exciting and engaging, but I find it hard to accept your declassifying it as poetry though. All in all, what matters most in my mind, is that a wide variety of people can enjoy this style of expression.

[Djemps]

@comeatmebroski. You are right! Poetry can also employ assonance, alliteration, rhythm, metre, half rhymes or pararhymes. No matter the literary tools, poetry should still possess some amount of linguistic music. I didn't find much 'music' in this performance, only exciting delivery.

[comeatmebroski]

@Djemps

It's spoken word. And the last time I checked, poetry isn't required to rhyme.

[xbellaxbrutalityx]

this is incredible