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The Illinois State Poetry Society was established in 1991 at the annual convention of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies held that year in Madison, Wisconsin. From 12 charter members, the organization has grown to a membership of about 150 and actively works to achieve its mission "to encourage the crafting and enjoyment of ...
The Auditorium Theatre is a music and performance venue located in the Auditorium Building at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois.Inspired by the Richardsonian Romanesque Style of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the building was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and completed in 1889.
It is the longest-running, weekly poetry show in the country, and one of the longest-running shows in Chicago history. In 1990, the first National Poetry Slam was held in San Francisco (with three city teams attending including Chicago and New York City ), and has continued to rotate among cities. [ 7 ]
Rooted & Radical Youth Poetry Festival (formerly named Louder Than a Bomb) is an annual youth poetry slam in Chicago every spring. Founded in 2001 by Kevin Coval and Anna West of the nonprofit organization Young Chicago Authors. [1] It is now the largest youth slam in the world with over 1,000 teams competing in 2014. [2]
The Poetry Slam is a competitive live performance format founded by poet Marc Smith in Chicago, which has become a hotbed for performance poetry. 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.
Coval was named artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, an organization that sends professional writers to schools to teach, in 1999. [9] In 2001, Coval co-founded the youth performance-poetry competition Louder Than a Bomb with Anna West. By 2017, the competition was considered the largest youth performance-poetry competition in the world. [9]
The National Poetry Slam (NPS) was a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and, occasionally, Europe and Australia, participate in a large-scale poetry slam. The event occurred in early August every year and in different U.S. cities. The last National Poetry Slam took place in 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
Originally designed for New York's MTA system, Poetry in Motion expanded to cities including: 1996 - Chicago and Boston; 1997 - Baltimore and Portland, Oregon; 1998 - Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. 1999 - Philadelphia; 2000 - Pioneer Valley, Austin, Fort Collins, Houston, and Ohio State University's public transportation.