Real Words

I don't know about you but I love a deep spoken word piece. It doesn't even have to hit close to home, but the fact that I can feel the artist's emotion within every syllable that is spoken gets my heart racing. My cousin introduced me to this poet's work a while back and I was floored. What furthered proceeded to cause the spontaneous combustion of the left side of my brain was the fact that his words were as powerful on paper as they would be in a performance. Check out UPenn's Joshua Bennett at the end of this clip of HBO's documentary Brave New Voices.

Also check out his poem Tamara's Opus in its entirety below

(It's the best one in terms of sound that I could find)