No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.