What's the difference between 'spoken word' and 'poetry'?

Spoken words are just like what come to your mind you just express this or tell them.there is no time to think over it. If it starts thinking after that reply then it must be spoke words this are called thoughts. But spoken words are inversly proportion to poerty. read more

Case A: If we are to answer yes to that question, poetry becomes a subset of the spoken word (as the written word in general will be a subset of the spoken word) which stands in stark contrast to Quora User's observation that poetry is suitable for reading. read more

Spoken Word Poetry (or performance poetry) is simply poetry that’s written to be performed. What differentiates it from page poetry is that it’s an amalgamation of 2 art-forms - the literary art, and the performance art. Both go hand-in-hand in a spoken word poem. read more

Many people don’t know the difference between Poetry and Spoken Word. Many became confuse when Russell Simmons renamed Spoken Word as ‘Def Poetry’. You might wonder why he did that. It was brilliant branding and marketing, post his Def-Comedy Jam. read more