The Room Is on Fire: The History, Pedagogy, and Practice of Youth Spoken Word Poetry

Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.

The Room Is on Fire offers an overview of youth spoken word poetry's history, its practitioners, participants, and practices. Susan Weinstein explores its grounding in earlier literary/performance/educational traditions and discusses its particular challenges. In order to analyze these issues, the story of how youth spoken word poetry developed as a field is told t...