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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, slams are often loud and lively, with audience participation, cheering and dramatic delivery.
She previously served as the head coach of Da Poetry Lounge's slam team and a co-coach for the Get Lit Youth slam team. [4] [5] [6] Wise co-founded and was a co-host of The Pigeon Presents: The Philadelphia Poetry Slam. She has been featured in a speaking engagement on the TEDx Talk series in which she dedicated the talk to her younger sister ...
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To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry.
The StorySLAM is a live storytelling competition in the vein of poetry slams [1] organized by The Moth, a non-profit literary society from New York City, since 2001. Storytellers (slammers) have 5 minutes each to tell a story, based on a theme chosen for the event. [2] No notes are allowed: stories must be told and not read.
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.
Poetry slam albums (1 C, 1 P) P. Poetry slams (13 P) S. Slam poets (81 P) W. Works about slam poetry (4 P) Pages in category "Slam poetry" The following 7 pages are ...
Beginning in the early 90s, Böttcher developed his slam poetry as a form of rhythmic poetry physically carried forward on the stage. In 1991, with DJ Loris Negro, he founded the band centrifugal, which broke up in July 2001. As co-founder of the German poetry slam scene, he won several times the Poetry Slam prize of Literature Workshop Berlin.