A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. While formats can vary...

The National Poetry Slam (NPS) was a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and, occasionally, Europe and Australia...

"catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, pianologues, musical readings, and hip...

National Poetry Slam and third in the 2006 and 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam. Gibson was the first person to win the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008...

technically not a poetry slam, Def Poetry has become heavily associated with the poetry slam movement, and utilizes many of poetry slam's best-known poets...

The Austin Poetry Slam (APS) is one of the longest running poetry venues in Texas. Founded in 1994 by Wammo of the Asylum Street Spankers and helmed for...

Look up slam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to: S.L.A.M. (Strategic Long-Range Artillery Machine), a fictional weapon...

The Individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS) is a yearly poetry slam tournament put on by Poetry Slam, Inc. that pits individual slam poets from around the...

public to present or publish code poetry, including Stanford University's Code Poetry Slam, the PerlMonks Perl Poetry Page, and the International Obfuscated...

Poetry Slam, Inc. (PSi) is a non-profit organization that runs three poetry slams: the National Poetry Slam (NPS), the Individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS)...

Australian Poetry Slam is an annual poetry slam competition run within Australia. Contestants of all ages, experiences and talents perform live and are...

Lisa Eckhart (born 6 September 1992) is an Austrian poetry slammer and cabaret artist. Born in Leoben, Styria, Eckhart grew up near Leoben with her grandparents...

and voice inflection. Slam poetry is often competitive, at dedicated "poetry slam" contests. Performance poetry, similar to slam in that it occurs before...

1949) is an American poet and founder of the poetry slam movement, for which he received the nickname Slam Papi. Smith was born in 1949 and grew up on...

poetry reading competitions, called poetry slams and beginning in the 1980s, also remain popular. Voice is an active, physical thing in oral poetry....

Canada) is a writer, performance artist, and slam poet. Benaim was a winner of the 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam. She is best known for her poem "Explaining...

National Poetry Slam Oakland where they beat 71 other teams to become champions in their first year. House Slam was the first Boston poetry slam team to compete...

American spoken word poet and writer. He has won several poetry slams and written six books of poetry: Getting Stitches, Scratch, No Gravity, No Gravity Part...

Dingfelder, Sadie (August 15, 2014). "D.C.'s Beltway Poetry Slam triumphs at the National Poetry Slam". Washington Post. Retrieved December 14, 2016. "Shestack...

The Women of the World Poetry Slam (WoWPS) (also known as Womxn of the World Poetry Slam) is an annual poetry slam by Poetry Slam, Inc. (PSi).[citation...

Cline, whom she met at the 1998 National Poetry Slam. Aptowicz was introduced to the New York City Poetry Slam community by NYU classmate, Beau Sia. In...

and 19 seconds. Also known for his slam poetry, he was featured on Season 6 of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. George Virden Watsky was born in San...

Mojgani, two-time National Poetry Slam Champ; and Danny Sherrard, 2007 National Poetry Slam Champ and 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam Champ. Seattle also hosted...

The College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) is an annual Poetry Slam tournament put on by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI)...

highlighted in many journals and magazines. She has competed in many slam poetry competitions, where she became increasingly known as a poet. Choi's parents...

founder/artistic director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam. The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular Poetry Slam in Australia which offers an artistic...

poems. This form of poetry can be found in murals, books, and poetic competitions or recitals such as poetry slam. Action poetry can be exhibited through...

work at Austin Poetry Slam venues. He was the Austin Poetry Slam Champ in 1998 and 2001. Cline also competed on the Austin Poetry Slam Teams at the 1998...

doesn't understand his situation. He leaves, but shows up that night at a poetry slam event in D.C.'s Cleveland Park neighborhood that Bell had invited him...

Button Poetry is a Minneapolis-based poetry company and independent publisher of performance poetry. They are known for their viral videos of slam poetry performances...