Grow Your Business Through Social Media If you are interested in growing your poetry business and increasing your profits, there are three ways you must market your poetry online through social media. Three essential marketing elements for any business are Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. These social media outlets will gain exposure for your poetry business [...] [...more]
The Need For An Email List If you have been online for any length of time, you have probably already heard that you need to start your email list. But why is that even important? You may not even have products (book of poetry & prose, chapbooks, album, etc.) or your blog set up yet. [...] [...more]
How Does An Online Reputation Work? What is online reputation and how does it matter to you? The Internet is a huge collection of information. Everything you do and say online leaves an impact and effects how people perceive you as a person and professional. In fact, 48% of HR professionals and recruiters prefer to [...] [...more]
The creative talent and diversity possessed by New York City’s spoken word poet’s never ceases to amaze me. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I see someone perform and think that if they simply had more exposure they would have a huge following. The problem is that 9 out of 10 spoken [...] [...more]
The world that we live in is in desperate need of light that poets provide. Poetry is a light that when used properly, will expose truths about our world that we would not otherwise be able to see. This is possible because poets, in their basic essence, are beacons of light. The light that they [...] [...more]
Almost everyone these days knows what a blog is. You can’t surf the Internet for too long before you run into a blog regardless of what the topic is. Blogging is a two sided relationship, one that exists between the owner of the blog and the readers of the blog. As a writer, your goal [...] [...more]
Many people think Open Mics only apply to musicians, but all across the country there are Poetry Open Mics in your local coffee shops, book stores, art centers and even churches. I’ve been going to Poetry Open Mics for some time now and noticed these events bring out writers of all genres: fiction, memoir, poetry, [...] [...more]
As avid-lovers of poetry, we here at Spoken Word New York try to make it a point to go out and find the hottest poets in NY. Jamica Hardwick or “this-little-poet-that-could”, as once described by a close friend of hers, is whom we believe to be one of NYC’s Hottest Poets. Best described, Jamica Hardwick [...] [...more]
Poet “Simply Rob” is Running The Streets AGAIN with his “From Running The Streets To Running The Streets” fundraiser for Harlem United Marathon Run. On November 6th, “Simply Rob” Vassilarakis of El Grito De Poetas will be taking on the challenge of running 26.2 miles in the 2011 NYC Marathon. He has chosen to sponsor [...] [...more]
Ibrahim “P.O.E.T” Siddiq and “The Artist” Collective will be what everyone is talking about this year and beyond. P.O.E.T developed “The Artist” Collective with a vision in mind. “The Artist” Collective will include numerous artists banning together to make a dream into a vision – a company infused with projects that will be the launch [...] [...more]
El Museo del Barrio offers a wide range of art for people of all cultures to experience the history of El Museo. Film and video to literary arts, from visual arts to architecture and design, El Museo del Barrio New York offers a full calendario of public programs for all audiences. Explore Latin American and [...] [...more]
Fresh-face, but talent galore, Artist A. Lyric will be a name you remember for years to come. Those of you who are prominent in the poetry realm are sure to have heard her name. But A. Lyric’s talent goes far beyond the poetry scene. A. Lyric is a talent extraordinaire. She is definitely an artist [...] [...more]
Would you like to earn a full-time living as a poet? Over the past year, I have seen quite a few poets who would like nothing more than to earn enough money from their poetry to not have to have another source of income. It is with that thought in mind that I have created [...] [...more]
In my studies of Hip Hop as an art-form and Spoken Word as an art-form, I can’t help but find the mass amount of similarities in the two. Hip Hop, with its style based on words backed up by a rhythm and beat. Spoken Word, with its style based on words that are spoken aloud [...] [...more]
Xpressions, a non-profit organization to help children, will be featuring “Voices For Change” – A School Supply Drive and Fundraiser on Saturday, August 20th, 2011 at El Fogon Center for the Arts in the Bronx. This “Voices For Change” School Supply Drive and Fundraiser will be offering a night of entertainment with some of NYC’s [...] [...more]
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