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Da Poetry Lounge was founded in 1998 as "Dante's Poetry Lounge" by poets Dante Basco, Ron "Shihan" VanClief, Devan "Poetri" Smith and "Brutha" Gimmel Hooper. Da Poetry Lounge was originally hosted in Basco’s living room for three years before expanding to the Greenway Court Theatre.
In the Czech Republic performance poetry has also become popular among both Czech speakers and expats living in the capital city, Prague, and surrounding areas. [11] [12] In 2002 the first expat-based performance poetry group Alchemy was established and regularly held open-mic poetry events until 2018.
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.
Feb. 19—EAST STROUDSBURG — On March 11, Brianna Booker and The Carlton host their regular show, Popcorn Poetry, at the non-profit venue Pocono Cinema and Cultural Center in East Stroudsburg.
Once a month, they host three events, an Open Mic, an Open Write, and Submission Sunday. [25] [26] Open Mic is every 3rd Friday of the month at 7:30 pm, allowing people to share their work with an audience. [27] Open Write is every 2nd Saturday of the month also at 7:30 pm. [2] Here, there are free writing prompts that people complete during ...
In Kenya, poetry performance grew significantly between the late 1990s and early 2000s. This was through organisers and creative hubs such as Kwani Open Mic, Slam Africa, Waamathai's, Poetry at Discovery, Hisia Zangu Poetry, Poetry Slam Africa, Paza Sauti, Anika, Fatuma's Voice, ESPA, Sauti dada, Wenyewe poetry among others.
Apples and Snakes was launched in 1982, [9] with its first poetry performance, at the Adam's Arms pub in Conway Street in central London. [10] It is currently one of the organisations resident at the Free Word Centre. [11] In 1984, it organised a poetry performance at Glastonbury Festival and at Elephant Fayre, Cornwall.
Button Poetry was founded in 2011 by Sam Van Cook to promote performance poetry through video and social media. [2] [3] As of 2018 they had over 774,000 YouTube subscribers and over 1.2M Facebook followers. [4]