Team Santa Fe, New Mexico. The only all Native American team at the Brave New Voices 2008 International Youth Poetry Slam gives their introduction. The crowd loves it!
Brave New Voices 2008 – Team Santa Fe from Will Brown on Vimeo.
Here’s a great article in the NY Times about the team and their mission:
“Young American Indians [...]
Brave New Voices 2008 is off to a great start. I captured some great pieces today. More to follow, but for now enjoy this highly motivating piece “Unofficial Proclamation”:
Brave New Voices 2008 – International Youth Poetry Slam from Will Brown on Vimeo.
What do you think?
This week’s featured video is by the amazing poet Taylor Mali. Since the first time I heard it on Indiefeed, this spoken word piece has always been one of my favorites. Listen.
A listener named Steve was listening to Cloudy Day Art #80 and heard Don and I talking about using Audacity to record our audio. So, he promptly downloaded the free program, but had some questions about how to use it to record poetry.
So, I decided to do a quick tutorial. I hope it helps more [...]
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Many in the slam community are familiar with the great poetical stylings of Mighty Mike McGee. Check out this great spoken word piece entitled “Microphone” that he performed in Modesta, California.
Here’s a video I found on Google Video that shows how a multi-poet poem performance can really work. I actually found this a few months back, but watch it again whenever I think about it. This is the kind of stuff you see when you go to poetry slams and open mics.
“Recorded Live at the [...]