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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 ...
Marc Kelly Smith (born 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 the southeast side of Chicago. He attended/graduated Charles P. Caldwell Elementary School and James H. Bowen High School.
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.
Marc Smith may refer to: Marc Smith (poet) (born 1949), American creator and founder of the poetry slam movement. Marc Smith (bridge) (born 1960), British bridge player, columnist, and book author. Marc Smith (palaeographer) (born 1963), French palaeographer.
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.
Marc Smith is the creator and founder of the International Poetry Slam movement. The PBS television series, The United States of Poetry, stated a “strand of new poetry began at Chicago’s Green Mill Tavern in 1987 when Marc Smith found a home for the Poetry Slam.”
Marc Smith is Chief Social Scientist for the Connected Action Consulting Group, a purveyor of fine quality social media analysis platforms and services. Smith is a sociologist researching the...
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