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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.
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 ...
Poetry Slam, Inc. used to sanction three major annual poetry competitions (for poets 18+) on a national and international scale: the National Poetry Slam (NPS), the individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS), and the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WoWPS). The last National Poetry Slam took place in Chicago 2018, after which PSi's voting body elected ...
Kluckman, the founder of the Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival, says he didn't know Albuquerque hosted the 2005 National Poetry Slam until after it had occurred. The ensuing fervor drew him into ...
SlamNation is a 1998 documentary film by director Paul Devlin.The film follows the National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon.. It follows the 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia, muMs da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, OR.
McGee is the first slam poet to win both the American National Poetry Slam Individual Grand Championship (2003) and the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship (2006). [2] From late 2007 to December 2008 he hosted the San Jose Poetry Slam, with Co-Slam Master Christopher Bundy.
After graduation, he taught at the university for three years [1] before moving to North Carolina, where he became the artistic and educational director of the touring group Poetry Alive! Wolf founded the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 1993, hosted the National Poetry Slam in 1994, and formed the National Championship Team in 1995. [2]
In 2010, he was honored as a "National Slam Legend" at the National Poetry Slam and was selected as a master artist for a National Endowment for the Arts program. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In the genre of storytelling, he has showcased at events such as the National Storytelling Network Conference, the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, and the Honolulu ...