A bridge across our fears: understanding spoken word poetry in troubled times

Curwood, Jen Scott; Jones, Katelyn

doi:10.1111/lit.12270

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“…Students described being mindful of preparing healthy meals for themselves; creating safe outdoor convenings with friends; and taking on new, or rediscovering old, physical exercise activities to maintain healthy minds and bodies (e.g., Schaefer, 2022;Turner, 2023). Young people also engaged in the arts as a means to sustain themselves (Curwood & Jones, 2022).…”

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Review and Scholarly Syntheses as Anti-Racist Action

Compton‐Lilly

Croom

McVee

et al. 2023

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice

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At the final session of the 2022 Literacy Research Association Conference, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Marcus Croom, Mary McVee, and Allison Skerrett presented critical work related to equity, representation, and race in literacy scholarship. Panelists shared concerns and pursued a shared goal. Specifically, as literacy scholars, they recognized that like the empirical research conducted in classrooms and communities, review scholarship—scholarship that aspires to make sense of large bodies of available research—is always subject to systemic biases, privileging, and racism. In this panel session, we intentionally sought to dismantle biases through four review-oriented projects that—each in its own way—attempts to counter the systemic whitewashing that has characterized review scholarship in literacy. The collective synthetic, counter-narrative that we presented is significant to literacy education. As we explained, the historical omission of scholarly reviews conducted by Scholars of Color requires a reclaiming of the field. Significantly, the omission is not a minor oversight. Scholarly reviews have long-term effects on scholarly communities; reviews provide novice and established scholars with macro views of the literacy field; in short, reviews identify what is important and worthy of scholarly attention and it is with this history in mind that the Integrative Review Panel for LRA 2022—and this current set of articles—were organized. Across our papers, we explore silences and obfuscations relative to the voices of Scholars of Color, the experiences of Communities of Color, and the education of all children. We view our public presentation of these syntheses as intentionally anti-racist acts designed to name, describe, and recognize the contributions of BIPOC (an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) scholars and communities. We are confident that the LRA community will continue to find this work impressive, inspiring, and important.

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“…Curwood and Jones (2022) presented the cases of two young women of color in Sydney, Australia that they describe as coming of age in troubled times. Composing and performing spoken word poetry allowed the youth to explore their cultural identities, offer testimony about their lived experiences, and participate in activism.…”

Section: Covid-19mentioning

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Review and Scholarly Syntheses as Anti-Racist Action

Compton‐Lilly

Croom

McVee

et al. 2023

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice

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“…Genom att analysera den poesi som framförs vid open mic-event visar Walkington hur plattformarna fungerar som rum där poeterna och de som lyssnar kan läka tillsammans. Andra studier har lyft fram hur poesin bland minoritetsgrupper fungerar som ett sätt att skapa motberättelser (Curwood och Jones 2022). En del tidigare studier har lyft just muslimska kvinnors poesi inom en västerländsk diaspora-kontext där teman som rättvisa, migration och motstånd mot rasism och förtryck varit gemensamma nämnare (Oumlili 2013;Sinno 2017, Krishnamurti, 2012.…”

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“…I exemplet blir det tydligt hur arbetet mot negativa stereotyper utifrån Collins (2000) förståelse handlar om användandet av kreativa uttryck där "att göra min egen grej" även indikerar hur det att se en annan muslimsk poet uppträda inger både inspiration och självförtroende till att lyfta ämnen som Somaya själv ser som betydelsefulla. Spoken word-poesi blev för henne ett sätt att genom att ställa sig på scen skapa motberättelser (Curwood och Jones 2022).…”

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Poetiska homeplaces: Reflektioner och samtal om muslimsk subjektivitet inom spoken word och poesi

Muftee

2023

TGV

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The last decade saw a renaissance of the artform called spoken word poetry through several spoken word projects in the suburbs of Swedish cities. A group of women who have been prominent in using these platforms as a way to highlight their voices and stories are young Muslim women from primarily from socioeconomically disadvantaged suburbs. This article focuses on a few of these voices. Based on a multimodal methodology including interviews with poets and readings of their work, this article sets out to understand how the young women use their poetry to formulate their subjectivity and issues that that matter to them. The poets and spoken word artists can be seen as knotworkers who use various platforms and tools in order to share their stories and reflections. The study shows how spoken word platforms have played an important role in creating a space where young poets find creative homeplaces and craft their own positions as poets and the kind of poetry they want to engage in. Through personal experiences and stories, the poets bind together several societal issues such as antiblack racism, antimuslim racism, classism, and patriarchy. Muslim subjectivity is articulated through the use of language and certain religious definitions such as references to prayers. Poetry is also used as a way to create feminist archives of missing stories. This study also highlights how double consciousness is at work where the poets reflect on certain difficult topics and how they chose to engage with them through their writing.

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“My beating and bleeding heart for all of you”: Enacting culturally sustaining pedagogy through spoken word poetry

Curwood

2024

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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This article highlights how mentors in spoken word poetry workshops drew on culturally sustaining pedagogy, modeled their own creativity and vulnerability through their poetry, and amplified the voices of youth poets by encouraging them to explore their identities and grapple with inequities in their own lives. Situated in western Sydney, one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse communities within Australia, the article focuses on the Real Talk program, a 6‐week school‐based spoken word poetry workshop organized by the Bankstown Poetry Slam, the largest slam in the southern hemisphere. It examines the critical role that mentor poets play in supporting young people's storytelling through spoken word poetry.

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A bridge across our fears: understanding spoken word poetry in troubled times

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Review and Scholarly Syntheses as Anti-Racist Action

Review and Scholarly Syntheses as Anti-Racist Action

Poetiska homeplaces: Reflektioner och samtal om muslimsk subjektivitet inom spoken word och poesi

“My beating and bleeding heart for all of you”: Enacting culturally sustaining pedagogy through spoken word poetry

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