On day 26 of #VerseLove, a celebration of poetry for National Poetry Month with teachers, I invited writers to try the count up or count down framework for spoken word. There are over a dozen on Ethical ELA.com, but a few of the writers accepted by nudge to record their voices by way of acknowledging that many of our students connect better to ideas through their voices rather than their hands, i.e., actual writing or typing.  And in this way, but speaking our ideas, we celebrate the benefits of multimodal writing -- text, gesture, audio, video, and space. We become proximate when we put our voices into these spaces and listen to one another.  Enjoy.