Performance Poetry:
Where it’s Been and Where it’s Going
Performance
poetry utilizing aspects of drama is a new idea in today’s world.
In fact, it is so new that finding previous studies on this topic was
quite a task. The previous studies I did
find discussed performance poetry as the art of reading a poem aloud. I reviewed one article in particular by Susan
Chambers titled, “Reading Poetry Wrong: Prosody and Performance,” in which she
supports this notion by focusing on how hearing a poem "performed" or read aloud is necessary
to fully comprehending the beauty of it.
Today, however, performance poetry is taking it a few steps farther. Through this study I plan to expand upon the
previous research to show how one poet who practices performance poetry pushes
the envelope and helps performance poetry evolve by making her performance pieces more of a theatrical production
than a poetry reading.
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