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82,794 views 5 years ago. The poetry slam is a competition invented in the 1980s to draw attention to the art of performance poetry. The contest is judged by five randomly-chosen members of...
2.8M views 10 years ago. This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. From primes to proper pop-up purple paper people, Harry Baker performs his a pun...
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Just a poetry slam that I wrote for English. I got first place in the competition we held. 8 people made it to the final round, two from each class.
If you’ve seen spoken word poetry videos floating around Facebook and YouTube—but weren’t sure what they were all about—check out this intro to slam poetry. Find out what makes slam poems unique and why they’re so much fun to watch when performed live.
Jul 16, 2001 · The Seattle Poetry Slam was founded by Paul Grajnert from Chicago and local music promoter David Meinert. At the time, Dave was booking acts for the Weathered Wall (what is now ISPY) and for Phil and Adrian, the managers at the Emerald Diner. The Emerald Diner was a neighborhood bar on Mercer in Queen Anne. (It is now a sports bar called Ozzie's.)
Jun 24, 2016 · He subsequently published two collections, Big Bank Take Little Bank (1991) and Joker, Joker Deuce (1994) which came out just as slam poetry was being hailed as a vibrant, multiracial, hip-hop ...
Musician, actor, and poet Saul Williams became a slam champion, but when he first encountered the genre in Brooklyn in the 1990s, he “was actually disgusted by the idea of competing with poetry,” he tells Bennett.
