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Baker has won the London and UK Slam Poetry Championships. [5] In 2012, he won the World Slam Poetry Competition, becoming the youngest ever winner. [1] Unlike other poets, his poems are based on feelings and emotions. In 2014 Baker began performing as a speaker for TED. [4] His talk ‘A love poem for lonely prime numbers’ has over 2 million ...
In 2017, a camera crew from Button Poetry attended College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational to document the festival, as they had done for many years. [ 28 ] Alleged "founder of slam poetry", Marc Smith , who was a featured performer on final stage that year, upset much of the audience with his set, which led to protests and changes in the ...
Since July 1986, Smith has run the Uptown Poetry Slam, a three-hour show featuring an open mic (1 hour), feature—poet or professional touring act (1 hour), and the poetry slam. It is the longest-running, weekly poetry show in the country, and one of the longest-running shows in Chicago history.
Neil Hilborn (born August 8, 1990) is an American slam poet who writes and performs poetry. His poems often detail personal experiences and battles with mental illness. He is best known for his poem "OCD", which has received 75 million views online. Hilborn tours to perform his poetry at colleges and other venues.
In Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz wrote of Grant's time in slam poetry, noting his writing "was street poetry at its purest. Thoughtful, precise but not without humor, his work spoke honestly about the life he and his friends and family lived and the city ...
Russell 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 HBO between 2002 and 2007. The series features performances by established and up-and-coming spoken word poets.
Lily Myers (born 1993 or 1994) was a sophomore at Wesleyan University when she attended the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. [2] She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2015 [4] with a degree in sociology. [5] In 2016, she announced the release of her debut novel, This Impossible Light, which was written in verse.
Marsaud discovered slam poetry in 2003 and started writing poems. [5] On 23 October that year, he made his first appearance as a slam artist in a bar at the Place de Clichy in Paris, where he recited his first artistic piece entitled "Cassiopée". [6] It is at that point he chose his stage name, Grand Corps Malade (GCM). He then took part in ...