Vocalized Ink is a collective of poets and writers promoting spoken word on the internet through the use of audio files. Making inked word verbal is our quest! VI's founder Sherykah is located in Detroit, MI but VI's membership is international.
Who Was Neil Stonechild? (tags)
SASKATOON - Saskatoon's police chief says officers may have been dumping native people outside the city for years, an admission that comes as new information emerges about a 13-year-old case.
The Fight for New Palestine (Fernwood/The Hood) (full story) (tags)
Every place needs a mythology. It sings for it. When it gets to the point which it is singing then it only hopes that it is heard. I hope I got to transcribe the notes right. It has a certain tone to it -- a certan bassline. This place/my hood/barrio/community, well, it became a place where you knew people cared enough to help each other out
SLEEPY BRAIN: Vanilla Primitive (tags)
The piece is "Vanilla Primitive" and it's another example of Braithwaite's unique "dub literature": cut-and-paste prose drenched in feedback and echo. Take the linguistic jouissance and near-future edginess of Anthony Burgess and Jack Womack, then splice that gene with hip hop verse and rhythm and you'll have something approximating Braithwaite's style.