How poetry unlocked my superpowers | Keenan Scott II

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Keenan Scott Il's passion for words, stories and superheroes fueled his journey to becoming a celebrated playwright, producer, director and actor. Showing how language can illuminate the superhero in all of us, Scott performs three spoken word pieces that seamlessly weave together literary devices like simile, assonance and slant rhyme, sharing the talent he's cultivated despite the obstacles (read: kryptonite).

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:14.0	And today we have a talk that reminds us that storytellers and poets really build entire
0:19.2	worlds with their words.
0:21.8	Writer Kenan Scott II speaks in the lyrical rhythms of a song about his journey to become
0:27.1	a storyteller.
0:28.1	It started with learning to be true to his own unique voice and personal experiences.
0:34.0	His talk from the 2022 Ted at BCG stage is coming up after the break.
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1:24.2	Now before I had the honor as a playwright to make it to Broadway, which also opened
1:29.3	the door for me to work in TV and film, like everybody, I had a dream growing up.
1:35.0	Now before I tell you what that dream was, I have to promise not to laugh.
1:39.6	When I was growing up, I wanted to be a superhero.
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