Spit­ting Ink fol­lows eight spo­ken word artists as they tra­verse the streets, per­form in situ, and talk about their moti­va­tion to write.

In the United States, a poetry sub­cul­ture has grown up around a group of young, spoken-​​word artists. Although the work they pro­duce is widely diverse, it tends to have a strong affin­ity with con­tem­po­rary social real­ity and urban cul­ture. The poets’ work is not aimed at a mass audi­ence, and they per­form in small clubs. Each of them has found his or her own way to focus the power of the spo­ken word. Spit­ting Ink is a por­trait of some of these artists. Inter­views and live per­for­mances are inter­spersed with images of the streets of New York — not the orderly, well-​​to-​​do neigh­bor­hoods, but their lively and some­times dilap­i­dated back­street coun­ter­parts, with their graffiti-​​covered walls, sub­way trains, and bars.

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Posted 9th July, 2011