Word: nuyorican
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...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...