Following the widespread praise of Donovan Livingston’s spoken-word poem, “Lift Off,” which went viral after he delivered it at the Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation last month, ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has won her first Grammy Award, claiming victory on Sunday in the Best Spoken Word Album category. The pundit received the award for the audiobook version of her 2019 book ...

Somerville, NJ (November 11, 2021) NPR and Edison Research released the 2021 Spoken Word Audio Report today, revealing the continued increased consumption of spoken word audio in the U.S. and the ...

Spoken word is far from the pretentious stereotype that we've seen mimicked in TV and films over the years. You know the one; a beret-wearing, roll-up-smoking grad student shouting angrily into a ...

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks recited epic poems aloud. Actors have breathed life into Shakespeare’s soliloquies since the 16th century. Now, a pair of poet-educators are working to bring ...

Caleb Rainey, a spoken word poet known as "The Negro Artist," performs at the newly-formed House of Words event for poets and other performing artists on Nov. 21 in Iowa City. (Elijah Decious/The ...

Somerville, N.J. (October 13, 2020) — The share of time spent listening to spoken word audio in the U.S. has increased 30% in the past six years, and 8% in the last year, with the highest levels of ...

This week, we’re taking a look at NPR/Edison Research’s new report on spoken word audio. While the latest NPR/Edison Spoken Word Audio Report defines spoken word as anything other than music, ...

Mack Wilberg, The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square music director, Derrick Porter, “Music & the Spoken Word” executive producer and host, and Michael O. Leavitt, The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square ...

Primarily used in doo wop (and subsequently doo wop parodies), this characteristic still occasionally appears in other genres. While its usage can sometimes border on cheesy, there are a select few ...