Spoken Word by Dr. Joshua Bennett non-fiction Kama Sywor Kamanda

Kama Sywor Kamanda

‘Every poem is precisely placed

to create a moving portrait of contemporary anxieties around language and the need to communicate

For the second half of his long life

 Independent

Spoken Word by Dr. Joshua Bennett non-fiction Kama Sywor KamandaSpoken word is the Western world's oldest form of literary expression. Spoken word is where poetry begins. Spoken word has changed the world. In 2009, at only twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited by President Barack Obama to recite a poem at the White House. With Spike Lee and Saul Williams among the audience, this event turned out to be the very same one where Lin Manuel Miranda first performed the opening lines of a work in progress that