Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities by Javon Johnson

Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities

Javon Johnson

170 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction poetry race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Winner of the 2019 Lilla A. Heston Award Co-winner of the 2018 Ethnography Division's Best Book from the NCA In recent decades, poetry slams and the spoken word artists who compete in them have sparked a resurgent fascination with the world of p...

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