Shane Koyczan is a spoken word poet, writer, and performer. He has placed first in the National Poetry Slam, published three books: Visiting Hours, a poetry collection, Stickboy, a novel in verse, and Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty most recently in 2012. Visiting Hours has been chosen by a number of organizations for their best books of the year list. Koyczan as a slam poet uses a phenomenal mix and texture, rythm, and novel points of view on traditional subjects that I find to be intriguing, engaging, and inspirational. Koyczan has an unparallelled artful mastery over the English language. Every breath, every pause, every word serves a purpose in his performances. He owns an uncanny ability to use the English language climax through his pieces making what he performs as moving as it is creatively inspiring. I haven't found an spoken word performer more worth sharing than Shane Koyczan. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppwowTJg0mI

This is Shane Koyczan's winning National Poetry Slam performance. It is also an early stage in his career.

https://www.ted.com/talks/shane_koyczan_to_this_day_for_the_bullied_and_beautiful?language=en

Here Shane speaks at TED. He uses his slam poetry skills to speak out against bullying in schools and in the world.

http://www.shanekoyczan.com/

Here is Shane's own website with personal information, tour dates, and current projects.




Bryce Waldron