Listen to 2010 POL Champ Amber Rose Johnson, Natalie Merchant, and Bobby McFerrin talk about the value of spoken poetry on NPR’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge.”
Poetry is often relegated to academia, but both Bobby McFerrin and Natalie Merchant think poetry is the literary art most relevant to our lives today. It certainly is for Amber Rose Johnson, the 16-year-old winner of the national Poetry Out Loud competition sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. She recites some of the works she won with, and tells Jim Fleming about the value of poetry in her life.
Listen to the show here http://www.wpr.org/book/100711a.cfm.