Spoken Word Poetry:
Spoken word poetry is a performance based poetry that focuses on word-play and story telling. Performers can weave in poetic components - such as rhyme, repetition, slang, improvisation, and many more elements of poetry - to create an atmosphere for the audience to experience("Spoken Word").
Here is an youtube video on spoken word poetry:
Sign Language Poetry:
In sign language poetry, poets do not use paper to write their poems. They use their hands and facial expressions to convey a poetry. It becomes really hard to understand this type of poem. But, people who speak sign language understand this amazing form of art.
Here is a video of Sign language poetry:
I found the sign language video very cool. I have not seen anything like that before. It really shows the art behind movement. Very similar to dancing as the man tells us the story of the poem. Also, it shows that our bodies can be used as a tool to express poetry.
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