Urban Poetics: Poetry, Social Justice and Critical Pedagogy in Education.

Stovall, David. "Urban Poetics: Poetry, Social Justice and Critical Pedagogy in Education." Urban Review 38.1 (2006): 63-80. 22 May 2008
. Author David Stovall views poetry or spoken word as a positive factor in the urban school setting. It helps students who live in an urban setting to express their emotions. Poetic educators such as Tara Betts, a biracial woman from the Midwest who is teaching in the urban community or Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, an Asian poet for human condition, has taught the students to express their emotions through poetry/spoken word. Stovall expresses how students should express their emotions because it will keep them off the streets and prevent them from going to jail.