Life's Not Fair | Spoken Word Poetry

Simar Singh is a curator and founder of UnErase Poetry, a campaign promoting and producing poetry spoken in India based in Mumbai. UnErase Poetry is currently curating poetry performances at TuningForkCafé of Khar West and offers these programs to be able to watch through the Internet.

A wide name of poetry used for performance. Some spoken words can also be posted on the page, but this type of roots are verbal traditions and performances. Voice can include elements of rap, hip hop, storytelling, drama and jazz, rock, blues, folk music. Accented words are often characterized by rhyme, repetition, improvisation and word play, pointing to social justice, politics, race, and community problems. In connection with the Grand Slam poetry, speaking can connect to the audience with music, sound, dance or other type of performances. Please see Murdoch Burnett, Kevin Coval, and Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz for examples of the performers being spoken. For the relation between voice and music, see David Browne's article "Pop Star Poetics".

Part of the American poetry comes from the Harlem Renaissance poetry, Blues, the 1960s beat generation. The spoken language of African-American culture absorbs rich literature and music heritage. Authors of Langston Hughes and Harlem Renaissance were inspired by the artist's emotions of poetry of blues and spirit, hip hop and grand slam inspired by the style of poetry like Hughes. The civil rights movement also influenced the verbal language. Famous speech such as Martin Luther King's "I am dreaming", Sojourner's truth "Is not I a woman?", Booker T. Washington's "Dumping Your Bucket", etc. affects the population of Africa It combines the motions of the words given. Speech element of the American community. The last poet was a group of poetry and political music formed in the 1960s to help boost the popularity of English spoken in the African American culture, born in the civil rights movement.