About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Poetry, Storytelling, Hedwig Gorski, Puroslam, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, Wear Sunscreen, National Poetry Slam, Bowery Poetry Club, Austin Poetry Slam, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Jazz poetry, The Watts Prophets, The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley, Poetry Slam, Inc., The Spasm Band, This Is Acid, Urban Soundtracks, The Americans, Poetics, SlamNation, Nam quốc sơn ha, Spoken Word Canada, Festival Voix d'Ameriques, When a Man Loves a Woman, Penned in the Margins, Moment of Silence, No Sex, Sow, Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, Three Hundred Words. Excerpt: Poetry (from the Greek 'poiesis'/ποίησις, a making: a forming, creating, or the art of poetry, or a poem) is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns, lyrics, or prose poetry. It is published in dedicated magazines (the longest established being Poetry and Oxford Poetry), individual collections and wider anthologies. Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. The earliest poems evolved from folk songs, such as the Chinese Shijing, or from the need to retell oral epics, such as the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Odyssey and the Iliad. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing, such as manifestos, biographies, essays, and novels . From ...
