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...tradition rooted in the greater movement to reclaim poetry as a dialogue between artist and audience. In the mid '80s, poet Marc Smith spearheaded the evolution of slam poetry by encouraging friends to battle it out Sunday nights at Chicago's Green Mill. After the evening's feature and open mike cleared the stage, judges were selected from the audience and given scorecards, and "rival" poets went head to head, poem by poem, for the approval of the bar. What was great on paper wasn't always a crowd-pleaser. To win, a poem had to have more than literary...
...Green Mill slams gained momentum as they gathered audiences who were isolated by the presentation of poetry within self-serving, academic literary circles. Chicago's success was an inspiration for performance artists in other cities who had been moving in the same direction, opposing the ruling power of published poets and poetry critics. As slam culture spread, most notably to San Francisco, New York, and Boston, it wasn't long before the first National Poetry Slam...
...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...
Rich, who has not seen much varsity action this year, rose to the occasion in the tiebreaker. He kept the Elis off balance with his serve, allowing Blake to slam home the winners. The pair...