Word Becomes Flesh is a fluid, evening-length choreo-poem that incorporates poetry, dance, live music, and visual art. Presented as a series of letters to his unborn son, the work uses elements of ritual, archetypes, and symbolic sites within the constructs of hip hop to document nine months of pregnancy from a young single father’s perspective. An Oakland-based artist-activist, Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, featured artist on the past two seasons of Russell Simmons’ Presents Def Poetry on HBO, and a recipient of 2002 and 2004 National Performance Network commissions.