Slam Poet Marc Kelly Smith Gives a Taste of the Genre
By The ArchivesSlam Poet Marc Kelly Smith Gives a Taste of the Genre
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As slam poetry moves more into the mainstream, Marc Kelly Smith, host of the weekly Uptown Poetry Slam, explains what makes a good, and bad, slam poet.Events:
Marc Kelly Smith Reads
Saturday and Sunday
Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest
The Uptown Poetry Slam
Sunday evening at 7
Green Mill Lounge
Poets Haki R. Madhubuti, Opal Moore and others will celebrate the life of Gwendolyn Brooks with a slam poetry performance
Tonight
Chicago State University
Interlude: Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”, from the CD Box Set Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006, (Shout Factory records)