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

Glennie: I’ve never recorded anything combining the poetic spoken word and music before, and I haven’t been exposed to any examples of this kind of collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

I remember staring straight in front of me at the windscreen, seeing nothing of the flying road, my ears still tingling with that spoken word.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier