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60 Minutes: The Poets Slam Back! All Together Now! All Together Now! Part II Back To School Special 1998 GO! PO! Live! How to Make a CD: A Poet’s Perspective, Part I How to Make a CD: A Poet’s Perspective, Part II Mediaization, Democratization, Popularization New York Heavyweight Poetry Bout On “the Spoken Word Movement of the 1990’s” The Poetry Kids from Pittsburgh Report from the Poetry Wars 1999 Road Tripping with Poetry Alive! Slam Grows Up As It Blows Up The State of the Art 1999 The Teenage (R)evolution of Poetry; The Poetic (R)evolution Of Teenagers: James Kass of Youth Speaks writes about bringing poetry into the schools, because “the next generation can speak for itself!”
Three Rules for Performance Poems Why Slam Causes Pain and Is a Good Thing
November 28, 1999, 60 minutes devoted 12 of them to poetry. Slam poetry, to be exact... our newest Museletter correspondent, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, files the report.
Touring Switzerland with Le Cirque Electrique: The story of two American poets who ran away to join a Swiss rock’n’roll circus.
The troupe performs in what were once farm houses, castles & factory complexes, ending their trek across Switzerland with a New Year’s Eve party in Zurich.
Professor Bob Holman’s “Exploding Text: Poetry in Performance”: Our intrepid PoGuide takes up residence as Visiting Professor of Writing at Bard College this semester.
Galinsky’s live weekly netcast “... allows the Free Mind of the Poet to synergize with the Free Medium of the Internet.”
First, make up poems for twenty-odd years.... look on CD, like book, as a vehicle for Poem’s Wild Ride.
How finished the book feels! unlike the ever-ongoingness of the poems. With a CD it’s different.... Mind dances, under the headphones, to poetry on CD.
Poetry Makes Its Move Move... reclaiming its oral roots.... That is the way we begin to respect all our individual voices: by hearing the poet in each of us.
Sherman Alexie and Patricia Smith went six rounds head-to-head, poem-to-poem, and in the end it all came down to the Improvisational 7th Round.
Some questions, some answers... A slow slouch towards Utopia. When we’re all poets, the politicians will have to look for a day job.
A Report from the Front of the Poetry Wars: Here comes 19-year-old Jasin from Pittsburgh to remind us why we write ’em, and how the “Sullen Art” (Dylan Thomas), the Solitary Muse, is going pop, communal, active...
At Slam’s 10th Anniversary, A NYC Perspective -- It’s called a Poetry say-the-word Slam say-the-word. The Roller Derby of poetry.
Tour doodles from Wendi Loomis.... I walk into tomorrow’s school armed only with poetry, hoping I have enough ammunition to get out alive.
A report from the 9th annual National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas, August 1998: It was a treat and a tribute, a coming of age and a Headbanger’s Ball.
Gates to the Academy of the Future Slam Wide Open! It’s the Voice itself, bringing us the spoken and performed poem, that is driving poetry’s resurgence.
From Janet Hamill: Rhythm, hooks, simplicity. Three keys for a poem that will work in performance. Thanks, Janet!
A poetical explication of Slam phenomena by Bob Holman: Because Slam is Unfair. / Because Slam is too much fun. / Because poetry. / Because rules. / Because poetry rules...
