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What is spoken word poetry?

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Spoken word poetry is is an oral art that focus on the aesthetics of word play and intonation and voice inflection. Hope this helps :)
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Spoken word. ... It is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play and intonation and voice inflection. It is a 'catchall' that includes any kind of poetryrecited aloud, including hip-hop, jazz poetry, poetry slams, traditional poetryreadings and can include comedy routines and 'prose monologues'.
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