The Room Is on Fire by Susan Weinstein

The Room Is on Fire by Susan Weinstein

Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events. 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 the first youth poetry slam festivals, the founders of central youth spoken word organizations, and a selection of young people who have participated in their local programs and in regional and national events over the last two decades. Narratives about individual and communal efforts and experiences are supported by analyses of full-text poems by youth poets and by reference to contemporary scholarship in performance studies, critical youth studies, and new literacy studies. Blending history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events, the book will appeal to researchers, teacher educators, and K–12 teachers.

Susan Weinstein is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University and the author of Feel These Words: Writing in the Lives of Urban Youth, also published by SUNY Press.

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ISBN 13	9781438470221
ISBN 10	1438470223
Title	The Room Is on Fire
Author	Susan Weinstein
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2019-01-02
Number of pages	210
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