Spoken word poetry is one of my favorite types of writing/speaking to analyze with students. I use these performances when I teach delivery and rhetoric to my English classes all the time. This particular poem, entitled "Somewhere in America" was delivered by 3 teenage girls from L.A. at the Brave New Voices competition. It is a passionate indictment of American society; their cutting remarks critique the education system, censorship, LGBT discrimination, oppression, poverty, and misogyny (just