A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. While formats can vary...
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The National Poetry Slam (NPS) was a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and, occasionally, Europe and Australia...
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Spoken word (redirect from Spoken word poetry)
"catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, pianologues, musical readings, and hip...
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Andrea Gibson (section Poetry)
National Poetry Slam and third in the 2006 and 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam. Gibson was the first person to win the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008...
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The Individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS) is a yearly poetry slam tournament put on by Poetry Slam, Inc. that pits individual slam poets from around the...
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Rudy Francisco (section Poetry career)
American spoken word poet and writer. He has won several poetry slams and written six books of poetry: Getting Stitches, Scratch, No Gravity, No Gravity Part...
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poetry reading competitions, called poetry slams and beginning in the 1980s, also remain popular. Voice is an active, physical thing in oral poetry....
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of Zurich, but she eventually quit. When she was 17, she started her poetry slam career in Winterthur, Switzerland northeast of Zürich. From 2014 and...
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poems. This form of poetry can be found in murals, books, and poetic competitions or recitals such as poetry slam. Action poetry can be exhibited through...
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technically not a poetry slam, Def Poetry has become heavily associated with the poetry slam movement, and utilizes many of poetry slam's best-known poets...
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Porsha Olayiwola (category Slam poets)
National Poetry Slam Oakland where they beat 71 other teams to become champions in their first year. House Slam was the first Boston poetry slam team to compete...
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The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular poetry slam in Australia that has been drawing increasingly diverse audiences from around Sydney since...
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Australian Poetry Slam is an annual poetry slam competition run within Australia. Contestants of all ages, experiences and talents perform live and are...
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Mojgani, two-time National Poetry Slam Champ; and Danny Sherrard, 2007 National Poetry Slam Champ and 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam Champ. Seattle also hosted...
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Marc Smith (poet) (category Slam poets)
1949) is an American poet and founder of the poetry slam movement, for which he received the nickname Slam Papi. Smith was born in 1949 and grew up on...
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Poetry Slam, Inc. (PSi) is a non-profit organization that runs three poetry slams: the National Poetry Slam (NPS), the Individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS)...
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Canada) is a writer, performance artist, and slam poet. Benaim was a winner of the 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam. She is best known for her poem "Explaining...
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stages for the emerging slam poetry scene. Unlike Gorski, who with East of Eden Band, began broadcasting live performance poetry on radio and distributing...
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Patricia Smith (poet) (section Poetry)
four-time individual National Poetry Slam champion and appeared in the 1996 documentary SlamNation, which followed various poetry slam teams as they competed...
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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (category Slam poets)
Cline, whom she met at the 1998 National Poetry Slam. Aptowicz was introduced to the New York City Poetry Slam community by NYU classmate, Beau Sia. In...
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Poetry Slam (WoWPS) (since 2021 known as Womxn of the World Poetry Slam) is an annual international poetry competition and festival. The poetry slam is...
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Look up slam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to: S.L.A.M. (Strategic Long-Range Artillery Machine), a fictional weapon...
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Lisa Eckhart (category Slam poets)
Lisa Eckhart (born 6 September 1992) is an Austrian poetry slammer and cabaret artist. Born in Leoben, Styria, Eckhart grew up near Leoben with her grandparents...
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The Austin Poetry Slam (APS) is one of the longest running poetry venues in Texas. Founded in 1994 by Wammo of the Asylum Street Spankers and helmed for...
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Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam in the chapter which dealt with the poetry slam community's response to 9/11, and his work has...
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public to present or publish code poetry, including Stanford University's Code Poetry Slam, the PerlMonks Perl Poetry Page, and the International Obfuscated...
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Dingfelder, Sadie (August 15, 2014). "D.C.'s Beltway Poetry Slam triumphs at the National Poetry Slam". Washington Post. Retrieved December 14, 2016. "Shestack...
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The College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) is an annual Poetry Slam tournament put on by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI)...
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Craig Grant (category Slam poets)
he was featured in the documentary SlamNation, which followed him and the other poets of 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia and Jessica...
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George Watsky (section Poetry)
and 19 seconds. Also known for his slam poetry, he was featured on Season 6 of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. George Virden Watsky was born in San...
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