Press Release: Phanai Records
"Poetry just fits so perfectly into our current mainstream vernacular.
A brief break in the momentum of the jazz-based spoken word beat poetry that preceded the rapping in hip hop music period forced it underground," says Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, a Nigerian-American writer who exchanged her comfortable career as a health care professional Pharmacist to follow her life and spirit calling her to pursue a career as a spoken-word poet and nu-jazz vocalist.
Iyeoka is one of a number of full time driven performance poets who are championing the spoken-word scene, and proving that poetry can smack a power punch on a bigger stage than the coffeehouses the genre has sprouted from since the turn of the millennium thanks to opportunities such as Def Poetry Jam on HBO and National Slam Poetry Competitions.
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A brief break in the momentum of the jazz-based spoken word beat poetry that preceded the rapping in hip hop music period forced it underground," says Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, a Nigerian-American writer who exchanged her comfortable career as a health care professional Pharmacist to follow her life and spirit calling her to pursue a career as a spoken-word poet and nu-jazz vocalist.
Iyeoka is one of a number of full time driven performance poets who are championing the spoken-word scene, and proving that poetry can smack a power punch on a bigger stage than the coffeehouses the genre has sprouted from since the turn of the millennium thanks to opportunities such as Def Poetry Jam on HBO and National Slam Poetry Competitions.
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posted by Iyeoka at 9/07/2008 11:24:00 AM
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