Storytelling Through Poetry - Spoken Word
Every single poem I've ever written, was written with how I'd perform it in mind. Let me explain... At my core, I am a performer and one of many different mediums: voice, theater, choral, piano, poetry. And as someone who loves to perform - for the sake of sharing the art, for telling stories through art - I knew that there had to be a performance aspect to my poetry book. Nothing else felt more appropriate than an audiobook, but I'm not thinking of it as an audiobook, I'm thinking of it as a play, a performance. My book is broken up into four chapters, with different thematic challenges in each one, but the similarities between and through each of the chapters, is that growth is non-linear. The words on the page will be in sharing the core story, but I believe that my performance of the book itself will add another layer of dimension to the collection, hopefully bringing a more raw and honest interpretation to the poems, invi...