spoken word

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For more than 38 years the World Stage Performance Gallery, in South Los Angeles’ Leimert Park, has presented live music, poetry, spoken word and other forms of cultural expression in its performance gallery.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

“The spoken word is perhaps the quintessential form of protected speech,” Justice Neil Gorsuch writes for the majority in Chiles v.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

She said the Australian film director's 1997 spoken word song contained advice that was still "relevant" and was "very sympathetic to politicians".

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

The multi-space Palm Springs Cultural Center also recently celebrated spoken word like “An Evening with David Sedaris” and the 10 student graduates of the Palm Springs Comedy Class.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

It was, to use his own words, "an art of short, swift, and secret writing, by the which one may transcribe the spoken word as rapidly as it issues from the tongue."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood