Writing the Self: Slam Poetry, Youth Identity, and Critical Poetic Inquiry

Davis, Camea

doi:10.18432/ari29251

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“…Adolescence is a critical transition, wherein youth are not only travelers into adulthood generally, but for those experiencing migration, youth are travelers into new academic and social communities, crossing geographic, social, cultural, and affective borders. Recognizing the importance of these life experiences to language and literacy teaching and learning, educators can engage spoken word poetry in the classroom as a strategy for students to author self‐narratives (Davis, 2018) and to critically engage with and voice sociopolitical issues and the impact of resettlement and migration.…”

Section: Spoken Word Poetrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spoken Word Poetry with Multilingual Youth from Refugee Backgrounds

Burton¹,

Viegen²

2021

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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This article reports insights from a spoken word poetry workshop conducted with youth from refugee backgrounds and their teachers at a large suburban secondary school. The broad aim of engaging spoken word poetry in the educational context was to encourage and listen to student voice and creative self‐expression, and to explore opportunities within the class to speak to sociopolitical issues and injustices relevant to students’ lives and experiences. The article illustrates how the workshop created situated, embodied teaching and learning activities to familiarize students with the spoken word genre and invite students to imagine spoken word as part of their expanding repertoire. These experiences engaged with students’ linguistic, cultural, and other semiotic resources, valorizing translanguaging as a critical practice for youth in the process of resettlement and teachers supporting their social and educational integration. The article concludes with implications for teachers interested in incorporating spoken word in the classroom.

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Section: Spoken Word Poetrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spoken Word Poetry with Multilingual Youth from Refugee Backgrounds

Burton¹,

Viegen²

2021

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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“…Camangian ( 2008) notes that such spaces are often unavailable elsewhere in the students' schools, homes or local communities. While Davis (2018) argues that YSSW offers a relevance to the lives of marginalized young people that is otherwise lacking in the school curriculum. YSSW does more than just sit outside formal educational/ literacy practices; however, it also presents a challenge to the dominant model of what poetry/poets, school/students, and indeed, society/citizens can and should be (Low, 2006;Gregory, 2008).…”

Section: Youth Slam and Spoken Word As Collaborative Critical Inquirymentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Disciplines: Spoken Word as Participatory Arts-based Research

Johnson

2021

International Review of Qualitative Research

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For many, the arts and sciences stand at opposite ends of an unbridgeable divide: the sciences, rigid, objective, systematic and authoritative; the arts, fluid, subjective, dynamic and capricious. Yet, there is a long history of productive dialogue and interconnection between these fields. Arts-based research represents a particularly fertile form of arts/science interaction. This paper interweaves poetry, theoretical discussion and empirical research to make the case for spoken word poetry as an arts-based method of inquiry that can provide a radically different way of doing, being and collaborating in and through research. With reference to the innovative method of ‘collaborative poetics’ and to the work of youth slam/spoken word educators, I argue that social scientists and spoken word practitioners can learn much from one another’s tools, techniques and ways of thinking, creating new forms of knowledge, redefining the audience/author relationship, and facilitating a ‘critical resilience’ which enables both individual fortitude in the face of adversity and a means through which to challenge the conditions that give rise to this adversity. The paper thus considers how spoken word as participatory poetic inquiry enables participants, researchers and poets to address the critical complexities and challenges of contemporary life.

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“…Poetic inquiry includes a rigorous inductive research process characterized by crafting poetry. Since its inception, the field of arts-based methods has embraced notions of criticality to deepen the analysis and usefulness of arts-based methods to identify and call out injustices in society (Burford, 2018; Davis, 2018; Denzin, 2017; Faulkner, 2018).…”

Section: Sampling Poetic Inquirymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…My free verse poetry memos were written in the form of free writes. Free writing is a stream of consciousness writing exercise, I learned as a youth poet and a poetry teacher employing a spoken word poetry pedagogy (Davis, 2018; Fisher, 2005; Hill, 2009). My free writes detailed my emotions, participants’ key ideas, and phrases that lingered in my thoughts as significant.…”

Section: Sampling Poetic Inquirymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, a unique contribution this article offers to the existing body of literature on critical poetic inquiry is the addition of spoken word poetry (Davis, 2018; Weinstein & West, 2012; Winn, 2019) as an option of culturally relevant poems that can be created using this method. Voice goes beyond language alone because when people speak we reveal tone, pitch, and vernacular all of which are culturally informed and indicative of deeper meaning.…”

Section: Sampling Counter-storytelling From Critical Race Theorymentioning

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Sampling Poetry, Pedagogy, and Protest to Build Methodology: Critical Poetic Inquiry as Culturally Relevant Method

Davis

2019

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article argues for a culturally relevant methodology that can aid minoritized and justice-oriented qualitative researchers in amplifying and sustaining the cultural epistemologies and counter-stories of minoritized research participants. The author uses the hip hop aesthetic of sampling as a structural metaphor to assemble the elements of a culturally relevant methodology capable of protest by sampling from the arts-based method of poetic inquiry, culturally relevant pedagogy, and critical race theory. This article explains criteria for a culturally relevant methodology of critical poetic inquiry and provides examples of research poetry that meet the criteria.

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Writing the Self: Slam Poetry, Youth Identity, and Critical Poetic Inquiry

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Spoken Word Poetry with Multilingual Youth from Refugee Backgrounds

Spoken Word Poetry with Multilingual Youth from Refugee Backgrounds

Beyond Disciplines: Spoken Word as Participatory Arts-based Research

Sampling Poetry, Pedagogy, and Protest to Build Methodology: Critical Poetic Inquiry as Culturally Relevant Method

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