Public Speaking Tips...
At some point, if you are serious about being a spoken word poet or storyteller, you are going to find yourself in front of an audience performing poetry. Some people-no [...]
How to capture a DRU...
There is nothing more challenging than performing poetry to an indifferent or belligerent audience but this experience can also teach you a lot. On Monday I had the pleasure of [...]
Money Guide: Branding yourself as a slam poet...
Speak 2B Free's blog has been on leave for the last month so we could focus on the website launch. A few weeks ago on Speak 2B Free Radio we hosted a show titled: make yourself a brand and we [...]
Speak 2B Free brings social change through co...
Press Release: New website brings storytellers, slam poets, and spoken word artists together to unite voices for social change Boston, MA. Speak2BFree.com, new social niche networking site aimed at unifying the often fragmented community of storytellers, spoken word artists, and [...]
Using spoken word poetry to promote a cause
It’s been 2 weeks since the last Speak 2B Free newsletter, blog post or radio interview. I was taking a break to do fundraising for a non profit, Light Path for Haiti. This experience has been very difficult for me [...]
Books of Hope: Using Spoken word poetry as a ...
How do you empower children that are being told by society that they will amount to nothing? How do you teach children to take all the bad things that surround them and use it as the basis to write fairy [...]
Art of spoken word: 5 reasons every spoken wo...
Are you excluding fans by not making your poetry and stories available on CD? When you read a poem or story you cannot easily capture the rhythm and emotion of the poet or storyteller, which is why live poetry and storytelling [...]