Rhetorics (good speakers)

When I lived in Arizona, the audiobooks section of my library had some interesting collections of speeches by people like Martin Luther King Jr. or Winston Churchill.

What I'd like to see or rather hear, is some more examples of poets here reading their own work. I'm sure regional dialects and the tonal inflections used would enhance the experience...
Anyone know how to make proper use of Zing or whatever it's called?

I don't think rhetorics is the word you want; it's a term of art referring to a specific kind of rhetorical text.

People who by destiny or training are good at using rhetoric are called rhetoricians.


And do check out Churhill's speeches; he was particularly fond of tricolons, which make chunks of several of his most famous speeches read like prose poems.

Would a better word be "orator"?

Orator is a great option--Thank you!

The only two spoken word poets i care for:

Taylor Mali:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpog1_NFd2Q

NJ Zanca:
http://njzanca.bandcamp.com/

Kuroyagi said:

Sylvia Plath:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ujeHnrT8A

(not completely satisfied by Plath there had somewhere heard better ones- by her- but for now may it suffice ))

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Maybe it's just me, but I love Plath. I thought the poem was pretty good.