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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, 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]
They also work with slam poetry and open mic organizations in New Orleans. [3] They won the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam. [6] At the poetry slam, Katwiwa performed "Dear White People" and "The Gospel of Colonization." [7] Katwiwa also placed at both the 2015 and 2016 Individual World Poetry Slam. [3]
Poetry Slam, Inc. was established in 1997 to oversee and enforce the rules of the National Poetry Slam. [1] Their mission is "to promote the performance and creation of poetry while cultivating literary activities and spoken word events in order to build audience participation, stimulate creativity, awaken minds, foster education, inspire ...
Slam poetry as a literary form and performance originates from Chicago at the Green Mill Jazz Club in 1986 but was first performed less popularly in 1984 around southern U.S. Regardless of its origins in the U.S. slam poetry can be found in many different parts of the world, Somers reinforces the idea that slam poetry differs for each culture ...
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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.
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 ...