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Poetry Slam--after open reading and reading by William Corbett. Bookcellar Cafe, 1971 Mass Ave., Cambridge. Thursday, February 13, 7 p.m. Free...
...Harvard community has hardly been immune to violence. In the most tragic case, Bunting Institute fellow Mary Jo Frug was stabbed to death near Brattle Street last April. That same week, a woman was raped near the Quad. Two weeks later, a Boston resident was knifed outside the Border Cafe, just a one-minute walk from the Yard...
...another popular audience booster in the clubs. Social issues, sexual and racial politics, and the general crassness of American culture are popular topics. "In the Persian Gulf bodies rained,/ Arab jets all worked in vain,/ The modern world is at the flood," declaims Joe Roarty at Chicago's Cafe Voltaire. Earnestness and energy also count for a lot. Donna Wozinsky, 36, a spunky special-education teacher from Queens, whose verse tends toward the excruciatingly personal ("I, the sperm bank of your soul . . .") attends at least three open-mike readings or slams a week. Says she: "I don't mind being...
...generation accustomed to the frenetic action of MTV. Contestants at Chicago's Green Mill are encouraged to perform their poems to live music, creating a new blend of poetry and song that has been nicknamed -- what else -- pong. In New York City the deejay at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe plays James Brown records and other dance music during breaks between slam competition rounds. "It's great to see writing so alive, and the dancing is great too," says Danine Richards, 25, a writer from Brooklyn...
...Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, California, the emphasis is on a mix of video and poetry called Telepoetics. At one recent event a poet in Santa Fe read a work about childbirth over telephone wires that fed into the cafe public address system. While her disembodied voice filled the room, images of her performance in New Mexico were projected onto three TV screens...