National Poetry Slam

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National Poetry Slam

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Smith’s vision also spawned the National Poetry Slam, an annual five-day poetry slam held from 1990 through 2018, where teams of poets from cities all over the United States and Canada competed to determine the best in the genre. The documentary film SlamNation, released in 1998, follows the team of…
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Smith’s vision also spawned the National Poetry Slam, an annual five-day poetry slam held from 1990 through 2018, where teams of poets from cities all over the United States and Canada competed to determine the best in the genre. The documentary film SlamNation, released in 1998, follows the team of…
Read More