spoken word
Lunch Poems poets present wise words on family connections
March 11, 2024By: Aedan Smyth, SFU Student On February 21, I attended a Lunch Poems event at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus. This recurring event happens online and in-person on the third Wednesday of every month, where two poets are invited to show off their work to an eager audience. Presented by SFU’s Continuing Studies program, this month’s poets were two award-winners making their communities proud. Sneha Madhavan-Reese is a Detroit-born Ottawa-based poet whose emotive poetry books have been tethered to astronomy. She won Arc Poetry’s 2015 Diana Brebner Prize, which recognizes a “National Capital Region poet, who has not yet been published…
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An interview with poet and musician Saul Williams
March 21, 2016Passion. Intensity. Purpose. These are some of the words that come to mind when listening to artist Saul Williams perform. Hailing from New York, Williams is a master of many trades. He is a rapper, slam poet, musician, and actor.…
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Four slam poets you have to check out
February 1, 2016I fell in love with spoken word poetry two years ago when I stumbled upon YouTube channel Button Poetry. They post videos of spoken word poets performing their original work at the National Poetry Slam (NPS), Individual World Poetry Slam…
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Spoken word artist Shane Koyczan brings his live show to Vancouver
March 27, 2015Internationally renowned spoken word artist Shane Koyczan is performing at Vancouver’s Vogue theatre on Saturday, March 28. Vancouver will be the fifth show of Koyczan’s Silence is a Song I Know All The Words To cross-Canada tour. His first two…
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