Literary Analysis Playlist Choose one of the following options: A, B, C, or D.

A) Spoken Word B) Podcast C) Spoken Word D) Podcast

Clint Smith: “Place Sandra Cisneros reads Jose Neil Hilborn: “OCD” Tracy K. Smith reads
Matters” Antonio Rodriguez Matthew Dickman

https://www.youtube.com/watch https://www.newyorker.com/pod
?v=hjtuvp5uLxk cast/poetry/sandra-cisneros-re https://www.youtube.com/watch https://www.newyorker.com/pod
ads-jose-antonio-rodriguez ?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s cast/poetry/tracy-k-smith-read
s-matthew-dickman

Instructions: After listening to either one of the podcasts or Spoken Word performances, write an essay in which you analyze the
performance of the poet. How does hearing a poem read aloud differ from reading it on the page?
If you listened to a spoken word performance: What sets this apart from written word?
If you listened to a poem being read: What did you notice about how it was being read?