Call it what you will: transient, temporary, fleeting. Spoken word storytelling is a tradition as old as language, with origins around the campfires of every society. But because it exists temporally in the ephemeral "now," when the story is over, only the memory of it lingers. That's the beauty of the storyteller's artform.
A live poetry reading is a vibrant, flowing form of expression that blends the emotional intensity of traditional poetry with the natural rhythms of everyday speech. Delivered aloud, live poetry captures the energy of the moment—allowing the performer’s voice, pauses, and inflections to shape the meaning just as much as the words themselves. It invites listeners into a shared space of raw feeling and spontaneous imagery, blurring the line between storytelling and lyrical meditation.
When you combine spoken word storytelling and a live poetry reading into one event, what do you get? Spoken Nuggets, of course!
Hosted in an open-mic setting, spoken word artists gather to present their short stories or poems in front of a live audience, with each event tied to a specific theme. Each speaker will be given four minutes to deliver their Spoken Nugget.
Temecula Valley Writers and Illustrators is proud to offer Spoken Nuggets meetings every other month in Temecula in our continuing pledge to reach out to the creative community of the valley.
Join the excitement, experience the thrill, feel the art. Be part of Spoken Nuggets!
We understand that you are passionate about your words and want to be heard. We support you!
We just ask that you please refrain from any content that is overtly political. Also, we ask our participants to not delve into rants, hate speech, or sermons. And absolutely no pornography. We aspire to make Spoken Nuggets a welcome and safe space for participants of all ages, genders, and points of view.
Participants engaging otherwise may be disqualified from receiving votes or participating at future events.
The air is thick. Time stretches. Everything feels a little off. These are the difficult days - of summer, of life, of whatever strange season you're in. Restlessness, waiting, that weird in-between. Maybe it was the summer you unraveled - or the one that woke you up.
Or maybe... it was when you found a loyal canine companion. A feral wanderer. A four-legged chaos machine. Sometimes, the things that save us come with wagging tails and muddy paws.
Join us next time as we talk about the heat, the haze, or the hound who changed your life, when the Spoken Nuggets theme examines…
When we make a space for writers to bring their words to life, we got to thinking: Why not create a a similar temporal space for artists as well? With that the Viewable Nuggets flash art gallery idea was born.
At every Spoken Nuggets event, the TVWI artist community will host a Viewable Nuggets Flash Gallery, featuring subnmitted artwork both in-person on digital screens and online through this website. The Viewable Nuggets flash gallery will remain open for browsing only until the live event concludes. Then, just like the stories and poems, the art will disappear into the ether.
Viewable Nuggets artists will conform to the same event theme as the writers and can upload their artwork to this website during the submission window, three weeks prior to the event. After the event, artist names will be listed as contirbutors to the event.
Want to participate? It's easy! Check out our How It Works page for more info.
SUBMIT YOUR VISUAL NUGGETS HERE FOR OUR NEXT SHOW
Visual Nuggets: "Tremulous Light" by Alex Kelly, "Until Tomorrow" by Tiara Harvey, "The Seagulls On a Vespa" by Ned Norman, "A New Connection" by Charlie Schimmel, and "Rising" by Sabin Flores
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