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Marc Kelly Smith, an American poet born in 1949 in Chicago, is considered the founder of the slam poetry movement. A graduate of James H. Bowen High School, Smith spent his early years as a construction worker...
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Slam
A competitive poetry performance in which selected audience members score performers, and winners are determined by total points.
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- Glossary TermsA competitive poetry performance in which selected audience members score performers, and winners are determined by total points.
- AuthorSam sax is the author of the poetry collections PIG (Scribner, 2023); bury it (Wesleyan University Press, 2018), winner of the James Laughlin Award; madness (Penguin, 2017), winner of the National Poetry Series...
- AuthorBorn in Detroit, poet Tyehimba Jess earned his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from New York University. He is the author of leadbelly (2005) and Olio (2016), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Jess...
- AuthorSpoken-word poet and arts activist Bob Holman was born in Harlan, Kentucky, and grew up in Ohio. He earned a BA at Columbia University and also studied at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project with Ted Berrigan, Alice...
- AuthorPatricia Smith (she/her) has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of Unshuttered (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Incendiary Art (Northwestern University...
