Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution

Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of the eminent slam movement and the upsurge of bold underground feminism has created a unique pool of women who verbally challenge society on all fronts.

Editor Alix Olson (internationally touring spoken word artist-activist) brought together a variety of astounding spoken word artists for Word Warriors. Included in this collection are Patricia Smith and Eileen Myles, two of our most formidable spoken-word foremothers, Tony-award winners Sarah Jones, Suheir Hammad and Staceyann Chin, recording artists Bitch and Lynn Breedlove from the dyke-punk band Tribe 8, award-winning writer Michelle Tea, and many more. These women join other amazing artists from many different backgrounds to create Word Warriors, a powerful and comprehensive collection of work from the best and brightest female spoken word artists today.

• Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
• Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
• No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets
• The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
• The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
• Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
• Wade in the Water: Poems
• The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
• Life on Mars: Poems
• Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin