Everyone should love spoken word

Shane Koyczan and Charlie Demers try to stay in the rhymelight over whether or spoken word should be embraced by everyone.

Spoken word artist Shane Koyczan talks the talk as he defends this form of poetic expression.

I concede that poetry will always have a place on the page. In books, printed on paper, which are a cause of deforestation. I'm not saying that printed word hates the environment,  I'm only saying that for every best seller you enjoy it has cost the lives of hundreds, nay thousands of trees!- Shane Koyczan

But the well-versed Charlie Demers says that while he loves poetry, he thinks spoken word should take a vow of silence.

Every time someone does that voice that no one actually speaks in, then says 'This is poetry now!' or 'Sure I know Percy Shelley, I loved her on Cheers!' a little part of you twists in agony.- Charlie Demers

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