Simmons presents Def Poetry, better known as simply Def Poetry Jam or Def Poetry, is a spoken word poetry television series hosted by Mos Def and airing on...

Council on the Arts. Along with his brother Russell, Simmons established Def Poetry Jam, which has enjoyed long-running success on HBO. In 2004, Simmons published...

Sugar and in television series such as Dexter and House. He hosted Def Poetry Jam from 2002 to 2007. Yasiin Bey was born Dante Terrell Smith on December...

Black narratives and music. She produced the HBO television series Def Poetry Jam (2002) and Brave New Voices, PBS's The Women's List, and was associate...

(1994) as Deonne Wilburn. In 2002 she appeared on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam. Seales became publicly known as "VJ Amanda Diva" on MTV2 Sucker Free...

Def Jam Recordings, a division of Universal Music Group, which had been created in 1984. Records distributed by another label, but released under Def...

Archived from the original on August 14, 2006. Retrieved March 20, 2007. "Def Poetry Jam: June 10, 2005 | Literary Kicks". Litkicks.com. June 11, 2005. Archived...

received a Peabody Award for the series Def Poetry on HBO. That same year, Lathan co-produced Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, which won a Tony Award for best...

York Times, Harper's, and The Nation. He has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, in addition to his Some People being broadcast on that station. The...

George is the co-founder of the award-winning "Russell Simmons Presents, Def Poetry Jam (HBO)," and the Founder of a growing "Genius Is Common" Movement. He...

on Season 2 of HBO's "Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam." The segment also featured artists including Malcolm Jamal Warner and legendary hip hop icon Rakim...

tour with Def Poetry Jam from 2001 to 2004. In January 2004, in Chicago, during one of her tours around the country for the Def Poetry Jam, she had a...

theater artist. He appeared on the fourth and sixth seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. Hernandez-Kolski was born in Chicago, the son of Philip Edmund Kolski...

most popular poetry night in Chicago and perhaps the nation at that time. He was eventually asked to come on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on HBO. He...

reaction to the September 11 attacks, he signed her to a deal with HBO's Def Poetry Jam. She recited original works on tour for the following two years. In...

and the city that he loved." muMs performed his poetry on seasons 2, 3 and 4 of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and was a member of New York City's LAByrinth Theater...

January 16, 2019. Lia McGarrigle (January 30, 2018). "These Vintage 'Def Poetry Jam' Videos Illustrate Kanye's Ambition From Day 1". High Snobiety. Retrieved...

Simmons received a Tony Award in 2003 for her work as a producer on Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Simmons is the author of the book Fabulosity: What It Is...

Bubba Sparxxx. He has also contributed his spoken word poetry to Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam and the motion picture ATL. He appears on the Outkast...

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Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Chin has appeared in Off-Broadway one-woman shows and at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. She has also held poetry workshops...

on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and placed 2nd in Poetry Slam, Inc.'s 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam and won first place at 2007 World Cup Poetry Slam held...

HBO's Def Poetry Jam. At the same time, he was touring, performing, and teaching nationwide with YouthSpeaks. He is a two time Brave New Voice Poetry Slam...

series Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry Jam on HBO. He co-wrote and co-starred in the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway." Colman co-conceived...

partner Stan Lathan, has also produced television hits HBO's Def Comedy Jam and Def Poetry Jam, and currently has a development deal with HBO. In 1996, Simmons...

appearances in four seasons of the Peabody Award-winning television series Def Poetry Jam on HBO. Coval attended Glenbrook North High School, graduating in 1993...

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Center and Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on HBO. TEDGlobal Fellow, featured performer at TEDGlobal Session 2010 Poetry workshops at the Esalen Institute...

Sia's appearances on television were on Def Poetry; he later appeared in the Broadway version, Def Poetry Jam. He appeared in Slam in 1998 as Jimmy Huang...

2001); Role Call (Third World Press, 2002); and Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown Publishing, 2001). She is the youngest poet published in the...