Playlist

Spoken-word fireworks

Brave and beautiful expressions from some of the world's most talented spoken-word performers, who weave stories in words and gestures.

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Sarah Kay

If I should have a daughter ...

18 minutes 11 seconds

Shane Koyczan

To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful

11 minutes 46 seconds

Rives

The 4 a.m. mystery

8 minutes 52 seconds

Jamila Lyiscott

3 ways to speak English

4 minutes 15 seconds

Anna Deavere Smith

Four American characters

22 minutes 51 seconds

Sarah Jones

A one-woman global village

20 minutes 46 seconds

Suheir Hammad

Poems of war, peace, women, power

5 minutes 36 seconds

Marco Tempest

The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla

5 minutes 48 seconds

Carmen Agra Deedy

Once upon a time, my mother ...

17 minutes 37 seconds