Word: nuyorican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most prominent venues for slam in the U.S. (now that it is an international phenomenon) is the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe in New York City. Here, video and film producer Paul Devlin experienced slam for the first time. Electrified by the suspense and excitement slam brought to poetry performance, he determined to share the experience with greater audiences. Devlin, an English Language and Literature graduate from the University of Michigan, characterizes slam as a force of resistance against the often "tedious and self-indulgent" tradition of academic or published poetry. As he explains, a lot of people don't realize there...
Note: Saul Stacy Williams, Nuyorican Poets Cafe 1996 Grand Slam Champion, also performed at the exhibition, but a clip from his upcoming film Slam! Slam! was not available for review...
...group after reading some of Kevin's poetry. Kevin states that mission of the Dark Room is to create a community "to help young writers while honoring our living ancestors." In connection with the Dark Room, Kevin has repeatedly travelled to New York where he read at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and mosaic-Books. "I can leave Harvard, but I can never leave the Dark Room," Kevin says. "If Harvard was its own island, things would have been harder...
...verse out of the hothouse environment of college and university writing programs and into bars, coffeehouses and even Laundromats and subway trains. "The only way ; for poetry to survive is to get out and get poetry into people's lives," declares Bob Holman, who organizes readings at the hip Nuyorican Poets Cafe on New York City's Lower East Side...
...appeal to a 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...