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
Barclay's hour-long spoken word performance draws on his upbringing in Huddersfield and his experience of the industrial landscape of northern England, against a soundtrack of live percussion and horn.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
Her first spoken word, which comes to her while gazing in awe upon a “disappearing machine,” as she thinks of it, is the French term for “vacuum cleaner.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
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
In addition to the spoken word, their communication methods include petroglyphs, wampum belts, and books with symbols painted on bark cloth.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
