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Jan 30, 2019 · This is Marc Smith’s usual way of welcoming his audiences to the Uptown Poetry Slam, the first performance poetry contest in the country, which he started in 1984. When he turns off the GREEN MILL sign, the 70-year-old poet gives a nod to the reason he started the slam format in the first place: To dim the lights on everything else and turn ...
Marc Kelly Smith (born 1949) is an American poet and founder of the poetry slam movement, for which he received the nickname Slam Papi. [1] Smith was born in 1949 and grew up on the southeast side of Chicago. He attended/graduated Charles P. Caldwell Elementary School and James H. Bowen High School.
Marc Smith (poet) (born 1949), American creator and founder of the poetry slam movement.
May 15, 2013 · Marc Smith is the founder of the International Poetry Slam movement. Since it's start at Chicago's Green Mill Tavern in 1987, performance poetry has spread throughout the world.
Feb 1, 2019 · At Literary Hub, read about Marc Smith, who founded the first performance poetry slam in the US (according to the article's author, Vangmayi Parakala) called the Uptown Poetry Slam, which has been held at Chicago's Green Mill Cocktail Lounge since 1984.
Apr 13, 2019 · The creator of slam poetry performs his poem, included in the new anthology on urban nature, Brute Neighbors.
