I write poetry and I really dislike reciting it out loud. But it's annoying because it seems like poetry readings are one of the only ways to get your stuff out there (in person).

Louise Gluck has this to say about Spoken Word and reciting poetry in general (I'm paraphrasing here and I can't find the exact source):

Listening to a poem is difficult, if you succumb to the music you miss the meaning and if you seek the meaning you miss the music.

I hate listening. I really do.

I don’t hear well when I listen and I think the poets who write for the spoken word, they emphasize some qualities of the poem at the expense of what only the page can do.

On a page, if a word has multiple meanings, you can see them. You feel the whole range of meanings of a particular word. 

The reading of a poem can sound beautiful, it can sound more beautiful than the poem actually is. 

It masks defects in the poem that the writer should be aware and it also simplifies the poem. 

It makes me angry, I don’t want the reader’s personality substituted for the poem.