I love love love (good) spoken word poetry! I love the energy; the slowing down and speeding up and the pauses that let an important word or sentence ring in your ears. It’s a performance that can be quite physical.
Check out Sarah Kay performing her piece “Hands”
(I tried to embed the video but something went wrong)
What do you think? Could you do something like this? She writes the pieces she performs but you can practice with poems from a book. It’s interesting to figure out which poems are good “performance” poems, and which are better for more of a “storytelling” read aloud.
Have fun! Talk some poetry today!
(I would LOVE to hear some audio of you reading/performing some cool poems.)