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Lindsay Young depicts the experience of living with social anxiety in their powerful spoken word poem “Social Anxiety.” Posted to Button Poetry’s YouTube channel, Young’s…
![More Than Words: The Power of Spoken Word Poetry](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/03/FE66B999-1A5E-482B-8E1C-0F7BB1D124F2-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Poetry can provide comfort and boost mood during grief, trauma and stress. The use of metaphors, words and rhymes help make sense of the world…
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In her spoken word poem “In My Favourite Memory of Her,” Reagan Myers reflects upon the beautiful moments shared with a friend who died by…
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Bearing witness to one’s trials and triumphs through their poetry can be a meaningful way of connecting with another individual. Tanesha Nicole’s spoken word poem…
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The psychological impacts that occur as a result of living through distressing events is understood as trauma. Managing feelings associated with traumatic events in one’s…
![Trauma, Gender, Racism, Poetry, Violence, Systemic, Sexualization, Harassment, Spoken Word, Culture](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/07/11E492B0-D163-48CF-8775-910EE1215DDE-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
In the spoken word poem “White Men Say Weird Things to Me” posted to Button Poetry’s YouTube channel, Ebony Stewart discusses the sexualization and harassment…
![Eating Disorder, Anorexia, Bulimia, Recovery, Relapse, Mental Health, Addiction, Mental Illness, Body Image, Blythe Baird, Spoken Word, Poetry, Poet, Artist](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/04/8E92AE1B-17D2-491D-9F5D-1105B9B1FD4D-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Blythe Baird shares a deeply personal and moving spoken-word poem about the difficulties she encounters after recovering from an eating disorder. Although it has been…
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Based in Chicago, Illinois, Bianca Phipps is an actor, teaching artist, and spoken word poet. Her poem, “Almosts,” explores the loss and grief she experienced after the…
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Neil Hilborn is an American slam poet who writes and performs poetry. Hilborn was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) as a child, and bipolar disorder while he was in college, and has always used…