Welcome to the queer spoken word poetry event! The rules are: Number One, you have to potentially redefine death to participate. Two: You have to simultaneously break and adhere to what is expected of you in order to re-speak history for a queer community. And last but not least, Three: Don’t forget to speak a possible future into existence.
Russell Thompson, liaison archivist for PoP and Apples&Snakes, reflects on the (sometimes turbulent) creation of the SpokenWordArchive.