Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry
Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse groups encourage members to share their lived experiences, decry injustices, and imagine a better future. At a time when students may find writing in school alienating and formulaic, composing in these poetry groups can be refreshingly relevant and exciting.

Listen to the Poet investigates two Arizona spoken word poetry groups—a community group and a high school club—that are both part of the same youth organization. Exploring the writing lives and poetry of several members, Wendy R. Williams takes readers inside a writing workshop and poetry slam and reveals that schools have much to learn about writing, performance, community, and authorship from groups like these and from youth writers themselves.
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Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry
Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse groups encourage members to share their lived experiences, decry injustices, and imagine a better future. At a time when students may find writing in school alienating and formulaic, composing in these poetry groups can be refreshingly relevant and exciting.

Listen to the Poet investigates two Arizona spoken word poetry groups—a community group and a high school club—that are both part of the same youth organization. Exploring the writing lives and poetry of several members, Wendy R. Williams takes readers inside a writing workshop and poetry slam and reveals that schools have much to learn about writing, performance, community, and authorship from groups like these and from youth writers themselves.
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Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry

Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry

by Wendy R. Williams
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Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry

Listen to the Poet: Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry

by Wendy R. Williams

Overview

Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse groups encourage members to share their lived experiences, decry injustices, and imagine a better future. At a time when students may find writing in school alienating and formulaic, composing in these poetry groups can be refreshingly relevant and exciting.

Listen to the Poet investigates two Arizona spoken word poetry groups—a community group and a high school club—that are both part of the same youth organization. Exploring the writing lives and poetry of several members, Wendy R. Williams takes readers inside a writing workshop and poetry slam and reveals that schools have much to learn about writing, performance, community, and authorship from groups like these and from youth writers themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625343970
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 08/31/2018
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Wendy R. Williams is assistant professor of English education at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Listening to the Poets 1

Chapter 1 Guiding Research and Theory 14

Chapter 2 Studying the Poets 23

Chapter 3 Performing Poetry 33

Chapter 4 Participating in a Community of Practice 49

Chapter 5 Writing and Authorship 79

Chapter 6 Weighing Benefits and Challenges 108

Chapter 7 Exploring a High School Poetry Club 120

Conclusion: Rethinking Writing Instruction 149

Afterword: The Paradox of Emotional Vulnerability 162

Appendix A Interview Questions 169

Appendix B Poetry Club Planning 173

Works Cited 175

Notes 187

Index 189

What People are Saying About This

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

A timely and necessary book for literacy educators and all adults who work with young people on their creative writing.

Robert Petrone

Through rich and nuanced ethnographic detail, Williams beautifully ushers us into the world of a group of diverse and talented youth poets who join together to nurture their voices, hone their writing, and literally get their words out into the world. By revealing how and why literacy lives so powerfully and vitally among these youth, Listen to the Poet promises to not only help educators develop writing curricula that draws upon students' strengths but also provide a commanding counter narrative that challenges and reframes the typically deficit oriented depictions of young people in much of our contemporary sociopolitical landscape.

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

Listen to the Poet is well written, engaging, and a pleasure to read, with a flow to the chapters that gives the whole book an effective narrative.

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