January 2011
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A Wonderful Resource: Indiefeed Performance Poetry
Whenever I need a dose of high-level performance literature, I find myself reaching into cyberspace to the trusted sources of high-art in new media I have found through community events, touring, and ever-increasingly through the work of online podcasts like Indiefeed Performance Poetry. Starting my performance career as a spoken word artist put me in a sharing community where I became hungry to...
September 2010
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August 2010
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Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival, Stanley...
Pushing grassroots literacy into a grassroots celebration of literature is a subtle but important cultural movement that enables us to appreciate the social worth and the beauty of our expressions in words. Now in its 7th year, the Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival combines an eclectic international selection of readings, workshops, music, spoken word performances, radio talk-shows, and a...
Empire (2008) - Susan Cormier
When you see how charming Susan Cormier looks on the cover of her monumental 2008 disk Empire, with a smile as cryptic as the Mona Lisa’s half-buried into the shadow of a skull she’s holding, you get a pretty good idea what you’re in for. What you get from “The Queen of Crows” is the new age of dark poetry. It’s what beautiful, poignant, off-kilter, spoken word dark poetry becomes after...
July 2010
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Buffalo Swans, Jess Hill, Magpie Ulysses @ Little...
Kicking off their “Western Caravan Tour” with a full house at Little Mountain Studios last night, Jess Hill, BuffaloSwans, and Magpie Ulysses showed energy, determination, and admirable skill. Highly regarded spoken word artist Magpie Ulysses started the night with growl, a bite, and a diamond star. She is charming, she is clever. So far from being a rock and roll poet without the rock...
June 2010
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Mashed Poetics Rumbles On
Besides hosting the city’s best small blues festival, The Cottage Bistro on Main & 28th is also home to Mashed Poetics, a mash-up of sketch comedy, spoken word and hard rock that happens every three months or so.
The idea for this series came from a pair of Australian poets who told Spillious and RC Weslowski (the organizers) of how they’d started doing live shows that combined a...
May 2010
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The Living Language of Spoken Word →
An essay written for Poetry is Dead responding to Betsy Warland’s claim that spoken word isn’t “deeply rooted in poetry”.
April 2010
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Vancouver Slam Finals 2010... Um, okay. →
There is something seriously wrong with the slam scene in Vancouver when…
The Skinny Magazine →
A Vancouver punk music mag covering music and now spoken word through Arts’ Corpse columns. Pick it up.
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