Product Description: The history, the rules, organizing, performing, scoring: all these are the elements of a fascinating phenomenon known as "Slam Poetry." Designed and concocted more than 20 years ago in Chicago and what has come to be a "new American artform," slam poetry and poetry slams are lushly written about by veteran poet, Geof Hewitt...read more

Product Description: Get in on the action...CD included! According to the PBS television series The United States of Poetry, a "strand of new poetry began at Chicago's Green Mill Tavern in 1986 when Marc Smith found a home for the Poetry Slam." Since then, performance poetry has spread throughout the United States...read more

Offers an assortment of slam poems and includes articles on such topics as setting up and judging slams, using props, and slam aesthetics.

Offers an assortment of slam poems and includes articles on such topics as setting up and judging slams, using props, and slam aesthetics. (view table of contents)