spoken word – Page 2

Day 167

Posted on Jun 16, 2015Jun 15, 2015 by Germ Magazine

My Favorite Photograph of Us by Talicha J.

Posted on Jan 13, 2015Mar 6, 2019 by Talicha J.

This is where I like to go before I get to the cracked vase of our life together. The places we once existed but no longer fit right, taken at a time before things didn’t make sense, not because I couldn’t understand them but because I was a child, I shouldn’t have had to. A […]

Fiona Apple’s Parting Advice for Every ‘I Know I Said Forever, But—’ by SaraEve

Posted on Nov 14, 2014Nov 30, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

She is teaching me to play the piano, says this is the last thing she has for me. But I am all left handed, emotional, banging on the sharps and flats. Still, she gets me. We are both run on sentences, bitter highs and baby doll lows. She knows why I only write when I’m sad. […]

For You by Caroline Rothstein

Posted on Oct 3, 2014Nov 3, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

. I want to melt purple violets and yellow roses into the arch of your back and run daisies over the course of your childhood, rest my hand limp on the porcelain of your cheek and mouth Sanskrit words into the apex of your breath so that our souls can remember the first lifetime that […]

Fat by Caroline Rothstein

Posted on Aug 22, 2014Nov 3, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

I am not fat. It took me twenty-two years to purge words onto a page the same way I purged my body into stomach ulcers, popped eye blood vessels, and missing tooth enamel — twenty-two years to tell the tale of my bulimic, anorexic, and disordered eating hell, and I’ve walked barefoot through tiled deserts […]

SHE DOESN’T NEED TO SEE THE MENU by Blythe Baird

Posted on Feb 3, 2014Feb 12, 2019 by Blythe Baird

1. I am watching you get sick. The whites of your eyes are becoming yellow yolks; cheeks hang like grocery bags. You make diets of day planners. No time to eat with a stuffed calendar. Live off scheduled glamour. Meals are powdered hot chocolate packets. No marshmallows; just water. Breakfast is plain oatmeal. No milk; flavored […]

Slam Poetry: Shrinking Women

Posted on Jan 15, 2014 by Jordan Gripenwaldt

[su_youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQucWXWXp3k”] Poetry can have a profound, visceral effect on a person, and in all honesty, few pieces of art have impacted me as much as this video. Slam poetry is an awesome, competitive form of spoken word poetry that is growing in popularity and being performed all across the country. This video of Lily […]