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Neil Hilborn (born August 8, 1990) is an American slam poet who writes and performs poetry. His poems often detail personal experiences and battles with mental illness. He is best known for his poem "OCD", which has received 75 million views online. Hilborn tours to perform his poetry at colleges and other venues.
Button Poetry was founded in 2011 by Sam Van Cook to promote performance poetry through video and social media. [2] [3] As of 2018 they had over 774,000 YouTube subscribers and over 1.2M Facebook followers. [4] In 2013 they began publishing books. [4]
"Shrinking Women" is a poem by Lily Myers. Myers recited it at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational; the video was subsequently reposted by Button Poetry and HuffPost, where it went viral. The video of this performance had been viewed more than five million times by 2016. [1]
Holman in 2024. Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam.As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author, editor, publisher, performer, emcee of live events, director of theatrical productions, producer of films and television programs ...
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
Not since Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf has a poem like that been on the stage. [2] However, Marc Smith, the founder of the Poetry Slam movement, is more critical of the program. Smith decries the intense commercialization of the poetry slam, and refers to Def Poetry as "an exploitive ...
Shane L. Koyczan / ˈ k ɔɪ ˌ z æ n /, [2] born 22 May 1976, is a Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University.He is known for writing about issues like bullying, cancer, death, and eating disorders.
After nearly derailing a spending bill and forcing a government shutdown last month, President-elect Donald Trump continues to shake up legislative business on Capitol Hill, offering shifting ...