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capri0mniSo, a few days ago, following a trail of recommended links on YouTube led me to discover this pair of spoken word poets. Their work may not be everyone's cuppa, but I enjoy them. They're both in their early 20s, recent college graduates, and co-directors of a national organization promoting poetry to high school students, and they also travel internationally talking about the importance of storytelling in the everyday lives of human beings. All causes near and dear to me. Here's their tandem poem celebrating friendship-love, and I think it's just fun.
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Date: 2012-10-01 12:53 am (UTC)That was fantastic, thank you so much for sharing. I love spoken-word poetry and this was just wonderful.
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Date: 2012-10-01 01:35 am (UTC)I've kind of been looking up all that I can find of these two on YouTube, the past few days... Started with some TEDx Talks in recommendations -- first Kay, then Kaye (and yes, I wondered if they were related). And their rhythms just kinda stick in my head like songs.
So much of what comes out of the Poetry Slam tradition is angry, and these two are so... not angry.
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Date: 2012-10-01 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-01 11:34 pm (UTC)Also, all the friendships they cite as precedence are fictional...
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Date: 2012-10-01 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-01 11:51 pm (UTC)Forgot the first on the list!
...I was so caught up with the juxtaposition between Winnie-the-Pooh/Christopher Robin, Rosancrantz/Guildenstern and Pikachu/Charizard...