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Poetry Slam, Inc., holds several national and international competitions, including the Individual World Poetry Slam, the National Poetry Slam and The Women of the World Poetry Slam. The current (2013) IWPS champion was Ed Mabrey. [15] Ed Mabrey was the only three-time IWPS champion in the history of the event. [16]
Marc Kelly Smith (born 1949) is an American poet and founder of the poetry slam movement, for which he received the nickname Slam Papi. [ 1 ] Smith was born in 1949 and grew up on the southeast side of Chicago .
Mwende Katwiwa, who performs under the name FreeQuency, is a Kenyan-American slam poet, community organizer, and activist. [1] [2] Their poems address issues of identity, emotion, racism, colonialism, and police brutality in the United States. They live in New Orleans. [3] Katwiwa graduated from Tulane University in 2014.
Chris Tse (born 19 June 1989) (Chinese name: 謝聖文) is a Canadian spoken-word poet, educator, and author of Chinese descent. [1] As a spoken word poet, he placed second at the 2011 Poetry Slam World Cup and 2016 Rio International Poetry Slam, and has shared the stage with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Shane Koyczan, and Mustafa the Poet.
Slam poetry as a genre originated in 1986 in Chicago, Illinois, when Marc Kelly Smith organized the first slam. [176] [177] Slam performers comment emotively, aloud before an audience, on personal, social, or other matters. Slam focuses on the aesthetics of word play, intonation, and voice inflection.
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He also produced the National Poetry Slam, International World Poetry Individual Slam, Women of the World DVD from 2002 to 2013. Tazuo Yamaguchi has made two documentary films: Pass It Around (2000) documenting the first ever Asian Spoken Word Summit that took place in Seattle WA, and Haiku: The Art of The Short Poem (2007) the first ever ...
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.