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The Book Case

Spoken Word Poets Write Their Catharsis

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode dedicated the art of spoken word poetry. One of our listeners wrote to us mentioning the name of Rudy Francisco and from there we fell down the rabbit hole of spoken word and slam poetry. We talk to Rudy and two other greats of the art, Bianca Phipps and Neil Hilborn. They are going to perform one work each and we will round it out with a conversation with Sam Van Cook. Sam is a founder of Button Poetry that represents and publishes so many of these great artists. Trust us, this is an episode you won't want to miss. Books mentioned in this week's episode: Helium by Rudy Francisco Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky by Rudy Francisco Crown Noble by Bianca Phipps The Future by Neil Hilborn About Time by Neil Hilborn Mill, Railways and General Castings by Sam Van Cook Watch their poems online: Hide and Seek by Rudy Francisco Almosts by Bianca Phipps OCD by Neil Hilborn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:01.9

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0:02.7

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0:06.0

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

0:12.1

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0:13.5

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0:17.6

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0:22.6

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0:26.7

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0:29.4

goes wrong.

0:36.7

Welcome back to the bookcase. Good to have you with us again. I'm Charlie Gibson. And I am Kate

0:41.1

Gibson, and I also welcome you back or welcome you for the first time. Anyway, either way, we welcome you.

0:46.3

This is going to be a chock-a-block full show. And so we'll dispense with our normal malarkey at the top

0:51.9

and just tell you about the program. And let me give

0:54.1

you a little background to it. When we first started this, somebody wrote in and said,

0:57.9

you should be doing a program on poetry, good enough, and named two poets, said, these are my favorites.

1:03.6

And one was named Rudy Francisco. And so I bought a couple of Rudy Francisco books. And as I

1:08.7

read them, I thought these poems really beg to be read out loud.

1:16.6

I'm the last person in the world to get around to understanding the spoken word poetry is just a

1:23.3

whole different category. It is. For me, it's the poetry of goosebumps. There's a great play that

1:29.3

Lily Tomlin did call Search for Intelligence Science of Life in the Universe. It's talked about

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