Poetry made for the voice and the listener rather than the silent page, including performance poetry composed for an audience, spoken word as an oral poetic performance art, sound poetry that foregrounds the phonetic aspects of speech, and jazz poetry that borrows the rhythm and improvisation of jazz. A form belongs here when its cited article describes it as poetry composed for performance, as oral poetic art or as poetry built on sound and rhythm. It excludes printed visual and constrained forms, which have their own group.
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Filk Music (Wikipedia)
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a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom
Performance poetry, Wikipedia
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poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience
Spoken word - Wikipedia
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Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem's as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities.
Sound poetry - Wikipedia
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Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; 'verse without words'.
Wikipedia: Jazz poetry
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demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation
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