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The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
Leroy F. Moore Jr. is an African American writer, poet, and community activist. He was born November 2, 1967, in New York City. [1] [2] He is one of the founders of Krip Hop. Moore and his counterparts Rob DA' Noise Temple and Keith Jones started Krip Hop, a movement that uses hip-hop music as a means of expression for people with disabilities. [3]
The Disability Visibility Project is an ongoing effort. The podcast, launched in 2017, includes over 80 episodes, each with an open and honest reflection of the experiences of the disability community. [5] Topics range from video games, climate change, poetry, immigration, intersectionality, design, violence, mental health, to entrepreneurship ...
The trick isn’t in finding ideas, it’s in recognizing ideas that are all around us. Here’s one way to go about it. Since 2009, I’ve posted a new word on my blog on the first day of each month.
Kyle Dacuyan reading at a poetry festival in Berlin. A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry. Reading poetry aloud allows the reader to express their own experience through poetry, changing the poem according to their sensibilities. The reader uses pitch and stress, and pauses become apparent.
"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability. The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome. As a testament to its popularity, several individuals have received ...
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"The Hill We Climb" is a spoken word poem written by American poet Amanda Gorman and recited by her at the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021. The poem was written in the weeks following the 2020 United States presidential election , with significant passages written on the night of January 6, 2021, in response ...