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Perhaps best known as the Season 15 winner of “America’s Got Talent,” earlier this year, the spoken word poet, educator, and artist published his debut poetry collection, “Unraveling ...
[4] [5] They self-published a book of poetry, Becoming//Black, in 2015. They have also been touring the U.S. to perform spoken word poems since 2011. [3] They gave a TED Talk in 2017 called "Black life at the intersection of birth and death." [1] They work for Women with a Vision, a nonprofit based in New Orleans. [5]
This is a list of notable African American poets. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans. Ron Allen, poet, playwright [1]
The Nuyorican Poets Café on New York's Lower Eastside was founded in 1973, and is one of the oldest American venues for presenting spoken-word poetry. [29] In the 1980s, spoken-word poetry competitions, often with elimination rounds, emerged and were labelled "poetry slams".
In 2005, her album, “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection,” was nominated for the Grammy Best Spoken Word Album. She was also named one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “Living Legends.”
This category is to be applied to people who are defined as spoken-word artists. It is not applicable to people who have trivially engaged in spoken word performance at some point in their career, nor is it applicable to people who are "artists", as in highly skilled at oratory or rhetoric.
Sekou Andrews has been performing spoken word poetry professionally since 2002. In that time, he has won two National Poetry Slams, two Independent Music Awards, and six CLIO Awards. In 2019, Sekou became the first spoken word poet in over 12 years to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. [3]
Javon Johnson is an American spoken word poet, writer, and professor. He is the director of African American and African Diaspora Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities.