The spoken word artists of Tongues of Fire Video April 18, 2013December 11, 2013 Ellery Lamm and Alan Piffer Recently, the Martlet went down to Victoria’s Solstice Cafe to catch an entertaining evening of spoken word poetry at the regular “Tongues of Fire” event. We spoke to a few of the poets to see what inspires them about the art of on-stage word craft.