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The following is a partial list of performance poets This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Performance poetry has also been boosted considerably by the appearance of Def Jam—the hip-hop recording company helmed by Russell Simmons—on the scene. def jam has created a television show that showcases performance poets that runs on HBO, as well as a show of performance poets that ran on Broadway for almost a year and won a Tony Award.
John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet and comedian who styled himself as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly.
O'Connor defied religious labels. The exquisite freedom in her music cannot be disentangled from that something transcendent she was always after.
Jayne Cortez (1936–2012), US poet and performance artist; George Coșbuc (1866–1918), Romanian poet, translator and teacher; Charles Cotton (1630–1687), English poet, author and translator; Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poet; Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989), US novelist, poet and critic; William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and ...
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
It is not applicable to people who have trivially engaged in spoken word performance at some point in their career, nor is it applicable to people who are "artists", as in highly skilled at oratory or rhetoric.
O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more. Lorraine O’Grady ...