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The term "performance poetry," a precursor to slam poetry, is attributed to her. It originated in press releases for experimental spoken word and conceptual theater Gorski created during 1979. [ 1 ] She is a first-generation Polish American academic scholar and accomplished creative writer.
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] In 2013 they began publishing books. [4]
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.
Spoken word is a "catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, pianologues, musical readings, and hip hop music, and can include comedy routines and prose monologues. [1]
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.
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John Richard Hegley [1] (born 1 October 1953) is an English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter.He has a reputation for wry and surreal humour, mostly performance-oriented or designed for younger audiences, and often sung or accompanied by music he himself plays; his material incorporates "a mix of anecdotes, jokes, idiosyncratic observations, confessions and surreal narratives".
Flanagan began reading his poems around Southern California in the mid-1970s, and was part of the poetry community at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. He published his first book, The Kid is the Man, with Bombshelter Press in 1978. [4] Flanagan met Sheree Rose in 1980, [5] and collaborated closely with her for the rest of his life.