A Global Perspective on Performance Poetry: Through the Web – From American Performance to Romanian Poetic Practices

Alexandru Higyed

doi:10.2478/rjes-2023-0006

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A Global Perspective on Performance Poetry: Through the Web – From American Performance to Romanian Poetic Practices

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 20 (2023): Issue 1 (December 2023)

By: Alexandru Higyed

Open Access

|Dec 2023

Abstract

American Performance poetry influenced the way in which the practice developed in other countries. Contemporary African, Japanese, and Arab poets started to write more and more for the stage. Eastern Europe seems to have been highly influenced by this practice. In this paper, I will try to investigate how American Performance poetry managed to influence the Romanian Spoken Word scene.

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