Research through spoken word poetry can yield profound humanizing insights in young lives.

Afrodita Nikolova is a Macedonian poet of Aromanian heritage, author of a national award-winning poetry collection “Bewitching” (2010). A part of the Versopolis platform for emerging European poets, Afrodita was a European poetry slam finalist and the first Macedonian poet at the World Poetry Slam Championship, Paris, in 2014. Interested in multiplicity of creativities, cross-pollination in the arts, and arts-based research, Afrodita is completing a PhD on the contribution of new spoken word poetry programme in young people’s lives in a Macedonian prison, at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx