In response to Dave's question re meaning of "Spoken Word"

For this outing, we did a goodly mixture of Irish-themed "stuff," including (as best I can remember): The Orangeman's Hell {Anonymous, from the Mudcat); The Curse (J.M. Synge); The Glowing Soul (Book of Tara (Dinnsenchas)-550 AD); Excerpt on Ferdia & Cuchulainn (Thomas Kinsella's translation of The Tain Bo Cualigne (800 - 1200 AD);         Post Ulixem Scriptum (James Joyce); Excerpt from Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of (Joyce's "Ulysses"}; Excerpt from "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph" (T. E. Lawrence 1922); Excerpt from "Dan Doonan's Wake," (Spike Milligan); Excerpt from "The Martyr's Crown" (Flann O"Brien); "Shan Vann Vocht," (Anonymous, circa 1798); "The Death of Parnell" (James Joyce); "The Dispossesed Poet" (Monk Gibbon);
"The Stolen Child," "Lake Isle of Innisfree," "An Irish Airman Forsees His Death," and "The Second Coming," (all by Yeats); Excerpt from "Cuchulain of Muirthemne" (Augusta Gregory, edited by WB Yeats);
Cuchulain first takes up arms (From "Boy Deeds of Cuchulain", by Yeats); and a bit by Seamus Heaney, the title of which now escapes me. The individual presenters were free to choose their own material, with instructions to have two "pieces," one of five minutes length, and the other of ten minutes. A few went over their time, but most stayed close. We kept it moving at a goodly pace, so there was very little down-time between the music and speakers, or between speakers. We'll do this particular show a couple more times in the spring, and I'm recruiting now for a package of ghost stories to be performed in the fall.

I think each performance group could do whatever kind of material they wish. The only limitation is whether it can draw a crowd.