“It’s been a long time, since I’ve wanted to die, it makes me feel, like taking off, my skin suit, and seeing how, my light flies all, on its own, neon, and bouncy like a, wannabe star,” Ada Limón ...

There's a new category in this year's Grammy Awards for best spoken-word poetry album, and one of the nominees is a voice we've been hearing for decades. (SOUNDBITE OF SPOKEN-WORD POEM, "BLACK FIST ...

Simone Stolzoff is getting ready to tell about 100 strangers that he’s never really been in love. He stands behind a microphone with his eyes closed and his head down. He takes a deep breath, shakes ...

Edison Research and NPR presented the new spoken word data Tuesday which showed, since 2014, share of time spent listening to spoken word audio has increased 20%, while time spent with music decreased ...

For Liana Wallace, spoken word poetry means vulnerability. A Georgetown University sophomore and a 2019 Evanston Township High School alumna, Wallace said a club she joined in middle school introduced ...

Bengalurean Prishita Tahilramani grew up listening to her grandfather's tales. "He used to recount his experience of the Partition of India and how, when he was eight years old, they had to move to ...

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Derrick Porter will narrate "Music & the Spoken Word" starting on June 23, becoming the fourth announcer in the program's 95 years of history. When President Gordon B. Hinckley asked Newell to fill ...