Spoken word performance as activism: Middle school poets challenge American racism

Davis, Camea; Hall, Lauren M.

doi:10.1080/00940771.2019.1709256

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“…Importantly, scholars have highlighted the explicitly critical potentials of YSW and the ways in which poetry can support students' engagement with critical literacies. Davis and Hall (2020), in their study of middle school poets, find that through collective conversation and writing, poets stepped into, and strengthened identities as activists and advocates "within-and-beyond the classroom" (p. 6). Our analysis draws from these studies to explore how group dialogue, talk, and specifically collaborative writing of a shared poem contribute to poets' writing and development.…”

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“…In this manuscript, we explore one after-school writing context, a youth spoken word (YSW) poetry team. While a large body of scholarship explores YSW (Davis & Hall, 2020; Keith & Endsley, 2020; Winn, 2019), including the relationships, writing practices, purposes, and audiences that poets engage with, very little of this literature on YSW in English-dominant, United States–based contexts has attended to collaborative writing processes or products.…”

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On the Page and Off the Page: Adolescents’ Collaborative Writing in an After-School Spoken-Word Poetry Team

Vaughan,

Lesus

2024

Written Communication

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Using case study methodology, this article analyzes the collaborative writing of three adolescent girls, one Latina and two Black, composing a group poem in an after-school spoken word poetry team. Drawing from literature on distributed cognition and embodiment, we found that participants utilized a system of writing techniques “on the page,” as well as a variety of embodied and social practices “off the page” in their team meetings to collaboratively compose this poem. We argue that focusing on the intersection of distributed cognition and embodiment in collaborative writing allows writing researchers to more fully attend to the collaborative sociality of all writing and allows teachers to support youth writers in recognizing and gaining collaborative writing skills for professional and creative writing contexts.

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On the Page and Off the Page: Adolescents’ Collaborative Writing in an After-School Spoken-Word Poetry Team

Vaughan,

Lesus

2024

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“…Additionally, some of the original groundwork laid in liberation theory by Paolo Freire suggests the central importance of education and pedagogy for social justice, and spoken word and poetics provide an avenue for self-expression that can open doors for justice (Fisher, 2005). Spoken word has the power for activism and liberatory pedagogical opportunities (Davis & Hall, 2020).…”

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Mystical poetry and the ontology of the self in liberation psychology.

Mohr¹

2023

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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The recurring images of the abandonment of the self to love of the Divine in mystical poetry, and by extension other people, have implications for understanding the historical precedent of the modern ontology of the self in liberation psychology (LP). Starting from roots in liberation theology, LP theorizes an ontology of the self that centers selfless giving and self-sacrifice out of love for others. The ecstatic poetry of St. John of the Cross in Christianity and Hafiz’s poetry in Islam both contain recurring and powerful images of the typology of the lover of the Divine as the highest and noblest possibility for human beings. Love of self and others is a natural outflowing of the relationship to the Divine. Mystical poetry supports the idea that love can break down separations between self, others, and God, not a naive and romantic fantasy of the possibilities of human beings, but a primordial typology of the essence of the good human life, and holds promise as a healing modality in mental health settings.

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“…"Youth poets possess an acute ability to articulate socio-political commentary worthy of recognition when given the requisite platform and support," note Davis and Hall in their study of spoken word performance as activism. 28…”

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“Keep Portland Weird”?

Noorda

Berens

2020

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Spoken word performance as activism: Middle school poets challenge American racism

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

On the Page and Off the Page: Adolescents’ Collaborative Writing in an After-School Spoken-Word Poetry Team

On the Page and Off the Page: Adolescents’ Collaborative Writing in an After-School Spoken-Word Poetry Team

Mystical poetry and the ontology of the self in liberation psychology.

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