Speak 2B Free Radio interviewed Apollo Poetry about his show “The Traveling Poet”, his upcoming projects and his source of inspiration. Who is the person behind the Traveling Poet? My name is Apollo Poetry. I changed my last name to Poetry so that’s my legal name now. I have been doing poetry for over 15 [...]
What the hip-hop music industry can teach spoken word poets
Hip-hop music is so much more than gangsters glorifying ghettoes and girls showing off their booties. On the contrary hip-hop music is spoken word that rose out of the people’s (African Americans) desperation to share their stories and free the minds of people. Hip hop music is what got me started as a spoken word [...]
Glastonbury Festival Poetry&Words Coordinator Speaks, Part 2
Poet: Helen Gregory Location: Bristol, UK Biography: Helen is a poet and academic, which means that she not only lives in an ivory tower, but can describe it using vivid imagery and interesting metaphors. She works on both stage and page and has released her own CD and chapbooks, as well as being published in [...]
Glastonbury Festival Poetry&Words Coordinator Speaks, Part 1
Poet: Helen Gregory Location: Bristol, UK Biography: Helen is a poet and academic, which means that she not only lives in an ivory tower, but can describe it using vivid imagery and interesting metaphors. She works on both stage and page and has released her own CD and chapbooks, as well as being published in [...]
Pushcart Winner Talks Spoken Word with Speak 2B Free
Biography: Afaa Michael Weaver is a spoken word poet, playwright, short fiction writer, translator, editor, and journalist. He received his M.A. in Creative Writing (1987) from Brown University, where he worked with Alan Trueblood in translation. Afaa has been a Pew fellow and taught in Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar. His tenth collection of poetry(2007) is The Plum [...]
