The Room Is on Fire: The History, Pedagogy, and Practice of Youth Spoken Word Poetry

by Susan Weinstein

Book Overview

The Room Is on Fire offers an overview of youth spoken word poetry's history, its practitioners, participants, and practices. Susan Weinstein explores its grounding in earlier literary/performance/educational traditions and discusses its particular challenges. In order to analyze these issues, the story of how youth spoken word poetry developed as a field is told through the voices of those involved. Interviewees include the people who organized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438470223
• ISBN13: 9781438470221
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"