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In a foreign country, sometimes, the only thing that feels like home is graffiti you’ve never seen before.

Shannon Harney and Elyssa White spitting “Get it Get it Green!” at the Sickspits Open Mic on February 3, 2009.

Elyssa White spits “Why I’m Online”, a poem about internet dating.

This video will debut at Dark Sparkle (a conceptual dance party) for Kurt Vaughn’s 30th birthday in the Technocultural Studies building at UC Davis.

Dark Sparkle is the potent mix of the mysterious and the dangerous that makes something irresistibly attractive, it’s what causes people to push their limits to the point of insanity, it’s what causes nice guys to finish last, it’s that unexplainable quality that pulls people to the dark side.

A collaborative project based off of a literature except by Lichtenberg about war, peace, and death. Universidad de la Complutense. Experimental Cinema Class, Spring 2008.

Elyssa White spits her poem “Boobs”, a poem about breasts.

Elyssa White: University of California: Davis: Spring 2007.

3 UC Davis poets speak about their personal experiences with Spoken Word poetry.

Elyssa White: Universidad de la Complutense: Madrid: Spring 2008.
Collaborative project for an Experimental Cinema class. A spoof on historical Hollywood portrayals of “fear”.

In my first film ever made, I read a tense staccato spoken word poem about nudity, youth, and morality.

Screened at the Davis Feminist Film Festival in Spring 2006 and Echo Park Film Center’s Youth Film Festival in 2006.