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February 2, 2012


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Spoken word artist Joshua Bennett performs today

When we interact with poetry, in a classroom, in a book or even scribbled on the bathroom stall door, we often only read the words. Too often we forget to speak the poem and to hear the stresses, the breaths and the rhythm. For spoken word artists, like Joshua Bennett, reading their poetry aloud injects a new life into the words that one might never have seen from simply looking at them. The words jump off the page when they merge with the speaker’s voice, his physical movements and the rhythm, …

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