An Experiment in Noise in A-Sharp Major - Ken Arkind

Thanks to The Chill Pill collective for this piece of footage

Allan Wolf Performing Poetry for Families and Kids

Excellent performance with chants and song that brilliantly hook children to igniting an appreciation for poetry at an early age.

"Love Dogs" - A poem by Mevlana Jelal'uddin Rumi

Coleman Barks reads Mevlana Jelal'uddin Rumi

Somebody Blew Up America - Amiri Baraka

Like, You Know by Taylor Mali

An funny serious poem about the evolution of language and conviction.

"Touchscreen" by Marshall Soulful Jones

This incredible piece has us reflecting the balance between cyber reality and reality reality. Marshall Soulful Jones - a very talented writer and performer.

Dance... poetry by Rumi, performed by Kim Rosen, Jami Sieber

Do My Thing

WhoIsParadise and Charlie Parker get together for the Wreck Sessions on FWD360 - a strong combination of vocals and rhyme.

Sound of Rum - Cannibal kids

How we Love a bit of Kate Tempest

Skin - Kwame Dawes From 'Wisteria'

Wisteria: Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country, was a finalist for the 2007 Paterson Prize.  These poems are written in the voice of elderly African American women from South Carolina who Dawes interviewed in 1995.

 The poems explore the world of Jim Crow South and show the power and resilience in these women who survived in that world and found a capacity to thrive. These are difficult poems, challenging poems and poems that ultimately show Dawes at his most lyrical.  

Wisteria was recently noted in the New York Times as a best selling collection among poetry books published by independent presses. 

This recording of Skin was made Live at the Purcell Room, International Poetry Week 2006.

Haiku for Max Roach performed by Sonia Sanchez

Dizraeli and the Small Gods - Reach Out

Dizreali. A neat poet and meeean guitar player.

Karen Gibson Roc performs Live

Bill T Jones

COUNTRY BOY by HKB FiNN ft Maxwell Golden, Zena Edwards, Soweto Kinch

HKB FiNN performs as part of the Conversations Project @ The Albany
An etheric, soulful autobiographically themed live performance workshopped in one day!

My I.Q. - Ani DiFranco

"My I.Q."

when I was four years old
they tried to test my I.Q.
they showed me a picture
of 3 oranges and a pear
they said,
which one is different?
it does not belong
they taught me different is wrong
but when I was 13 years old
I woke up one morning

Jean Binta Breeze - I knoh Mi Duck

Jean Binta Breeze, the dub poetess does something amazing. She bring dub poetry and the lilt of the North of England together in the reading of this poem. It is so musical in its empathy.