Author makes a case for hip-hop and poetry (from Kansan.com)
Jay-Z and Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare and Big Daddy Kane, Ralph Ellison and Kanye West. On Thursday night, the names mixed together indiscriminately. Adam Bradley, an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, delivered the message that rap is pounding on the door of the literary establishment as part of what he called a “State of the Union of Hip Hop 2011.” He was joined in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union by a panel of guest speakers that included University faculty and staff as he discussed rap, writing a book with Common and the structure of hip-hop…
The ‘Lady Gaga of spoken word poetry’ hits campus tonight (from Diamondback Online)
If there is one person who embodies both the bizarre and the creative impulses inside every human being, it might be Lady Gaga. With her ridiculous costumes and blunt words, she lives life as she wants to — by her own terms…
Poet found her passion in 4th grade (from PhillyBurbs.com)
She was in fourth grade when the revelation freed her, when words, typically a chaotic presence in her mind, were presented with an avenue for order…
Expanding the Art of Spoken Word (from The Cougar’s Byte)
Praise the form of art called poetry. Praise the way that the words move through human veins as he or she breathes each phrase or sentence. Praise the imagination that made the poem or masterpiece possible. But most importantly, praise the beauty and intensity behind the emotion the poem releases; for it is not often that one may read a piece as moving, natural, and rhythmic as a poem…
