Help Meee!!!!!

[keagan]

I am in the middle of doing "community service" and this is what I have to do;

"Subversive Speak is a poetry program we are starting in April. In the program students will write poems or spoken word pieces about identity and the effects that prejudice and stereotyping have on people. After writing, they'll pick some pieces to dramatize through video. I was inspired to do this program after seeing the video you can find here: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/youthvoices/index.html

Click on the one that called "slip of the tongue."

Not every poem will end up looking like that though, or fitting into that type of narrative video, and that is where your research comes in and will be so valuable.

What I need you to do is find some other examples of people using visual media with poetry. This could be anything from spoken word or poetry that has been turned into a video project or some sort of multimedia presentation (like flash or maybe an artist that uses video or slideshows behind them during performance).

basically I have to find "poets" in the vein of Saul Williams and People Like Him...

Anyhelp!?

[Guest StuckOnStupid]

have you ever heard of Raphael De la Ghetto? Look for anything by him...

There's another dude from Brooklyn named Gordon Gartrelle....very heavy shit, my nigga.

[RAISED BY WOLVES]

Son I was a young nigga hustling

Me serving a D was unheard of, unless a D served me

Speak words superbly, its clear you heard me

Your idea of a real nigga changed

I'm into bigger things

I'm tryin to maintain the same aim of prisoners,

dealers and my niggas who gangbang

The game changed, shit is on fire

Niggas went from greatness to statements and wires

So scared to face bids they betrayed their suppliers

So niggas outta state, you want weight you pay higher

I'm condemmed yet exalted for words spoken cautious

Seen some of the biggest drug dealers blow fortunes

in bathrooms

Niggas be sniffin like vacuums

Reminisce to '88, the year crack ruled

I had Nike Delta Forces with them clear capsules

5 for 40,

crackheads like

"I only buy from Cory"

[thinctank]

this may be helpful: http://www.bcactionpoet.org/