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	The Raving Poets
		(EDMONTON) The Raving Poets, now in the midst of their seventh year of spoken-word performance with improvised music, are proud to announce the release of The Raving Poets – Remixed.
		Raving Poets drummer/mix-master Gord McRae has taken hundreds of hours to rework these 13 live recordings (made in a bar on Edmonton’s world-famous Whyte Ave).
		He has pushed the spirit of each poet’s work right up to the summit, and once there, he’s taken the time to play a little.
	www.ravingpoets.com (506 words)

	Performance poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whereas poetry readings featured poets reading their printed books for a live audience, some of which were recorded on audio media, performance poets use a different style of writing poetry that is less conducive to print and better suited for their oral presentations.
		Performance poets relied more on the rhetorical and philosophical expression in their poetics than performance artists, who arose from the visual art genres of painting and sculpture.
		The public performance of poetry became generally restricted, at least in a European context, to the staging of plays in verse and occasionally, for example in the cases of the Elizabethan madrigalists or Robert Burns, as texts for singing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Performance_poetry (1825 words)

	Learn more about Performance poetry in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		performance poetry is poetry that is specifically meant to be seen and heard by an audience, as opposed to being read off a page (or a computer screen).
		the poets use their own original work, without any props or musical accompaniment, and are subject to a strict 3-minute time-limit with severe penalties for going overtime (generally half a point for every ten second increment over).
		poets are scored by 5 judges, who use a 0.00 to 10.00 scale, with the high and low scores being thrown out.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pe/performance_poetry.html (862 words)

	Austin Downtown Art Magazine Poetry Slam Poetry
		Performance poetry, and the slam in particular, utilize these conventions to benefit the audience and to influence the interpretation of their work.
		Performance poetry incorporates dramatic elements, timing, facial expressions, gestures, and pronunciation/ inflection which is very difficult, if not impossible, to replicate on the page.
		Performance poets must keep in mind that an audience member may be hearing the poem for his first and only time.
	www.diversearts.org /adta_poetry_slampoety.html (1228 words)

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		As with all of the performing arts, if you want to know anything specific about the form, you really have to be there to catch it on the wing, but be forewarned: individuals of the species vary widely.
		I think that many Performance Poets such as the Nearly Fatal Women depend especially on their unique presence as the means by which to create an effective performance.
		Performing poetry means putting your body up there in front of others - not necessarily in as theatrical ways as the Nearly Fatal Women do - but with body language as well as words, letting your audience know what it feels like to be inside your particular experience.
	www.thebookery.com /bookpress/Dec97/fortunato.txt (2349 words)

	April 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Performance poetry was born from the love of words, the repetition of those words and the rhythm that is produced in man when he hears the words.
		Performance poetry brings to mind the town crier, the troubadour, the minstrel, the vaudevillian, the actor and the modern day hip hop artist.
		Performing poetry can be as simple as the poet changing his or her voice, switching the rhythm, adding instruments or recorded music, using props, slides and art work.
	www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org /sys-tmpl/theartofperformancepoetry (553 words)

	What is Slam?
		A poetry slam is an event in which poets perform their work and are judged by members of the audience.
		Of the scores the poet received from the five judges, the high and low scores are dropped, and the middle three are added together, giving the poet a total score of 0-30.
		Slam is designed for the audience to react vocally and openly to all aspects of the show, including the poet's performance, the judges' scores, and the host's banter.
	www.freewebs.com /cs_poetryslam/whatis.html (740 words)

	Dallas Poetry Slam - FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In other words, the judges vote for which poets they want to see more work from by giving numerical scores (on a zero to 10 scale) based on the poet's content and performance.
		Not all poets make the second round and the poet with the highest combined score at the end of second round wins a prize (usually cash).
		Poets are free to do work in any style on any subject.
	www.dallaspoetryslam.org /faq.asp (751 words)

	Performance poetry
		One of these was that the oral poems, or at least the most popular of them, tended to be written down.
		Another was that poetry now tended to be written for, rather than composed during, performance.
		This kind of poetry was common through the Middle Ages in, for instance, the work of the troubadors and travelling bards who went from one noble's court or house to another singing or reciting their works in order to earn their living.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/performance_poetry.html (1066 words)

	Performance poets to present dazzling verbal pyrotechnics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With their infectious energy, dynamic poetry and gripping descriptions of the human condition, the poets have revived the flavor of the 1950s' Beat generation while introducing the joy and power of spoken verse to the 1990s' X generation.
		She is known for her performance poetry and has appeared in poetry events in New York City and throughout the country.
		She recently performed in a short film called "Voices Underground," which was written by Broadway playwright and Tony Award nominee Reg E. Gaines.
	record.wustl.edu /archive/1997/04-03-97/3874.html (652 words)

	albany poets >> Albany Poets News
		To be sure, spoken word performer Corbet Dean, a 13-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department, has a job that precludes his frittering away any off-duty hours.
		Nonetheless, Dean is an experienced spoken word performer and is widely considered to be one of the Valley's top talents.
		From her perspective, one of the most encouraging signs of health for the Valley's poetry scene is the increased number of events and venues presenting spoken word.
	www.albanypoets.com /news/read.asp?newsID=49 (587 words)

	About the VLP Poetry Slam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Each poet gets three minutes, plus a ten-second grace period, to read one poem; if the poet goes over, points will be deducted from the total score--half a point deduction from total score for every ten seconds beyond the grace period (for example, go three minutes and eleven seconds and lose half a point);
		The judges' tastes, the audience's reactions, and the poets' performances all shape a slam event, and what wins at one slam might not get a poet into the second round the next time.
		New York City poet Taylor Mali, a member of multiple championship teams, has modified the motto to read, "The points are not the point; the point is to get more points than anyone else," but we're pretty sure he's got his tongue planted firmly in cheek when he says that.
	www.usd.edu /~projlit/poetryslam.html (986 words)

	e-poets Plain Text: will work for food - Dan X. O'Neil
		Whatever industry you happen to be in, everyone needs to consume a certain amount of calories, everyone needs to clothe themselves against wind and snow, everyone needs to supply their offspring with diapers and milk.
		That performance poets are denied the ability to provide for themselves with the sale of their own unique goods and services is a sham.
		Father of two." He is a veteran performance poet whose in-print and spoken work display a postmodern sensibility.
	www.e-poets.net /PlainText/page04-006b.shtml (506 words)

	Slam poetry in Chicago
		To me, performance art is a completely different thingcompared to what performance poets think it is.
		"I think a lot of performance poets are basically so happy tobe reading their work in front of an audience that they tendto pander a little bit.
		Through Smith, word found its way to Lois Weisberg, oftheChicago Department ofCultural Affairs.With the assistance of her department, Weisberg was able todispatch four poets from Chicago who joined in the slam: MarcSmith, the new Chicago slam champion Patricia Smith, CindySalach, and Dean Hacker.
	www.e-poets.net /library/slam/diaspora.html (2306 words)

	Performance Poetry Links
		The poets included here were mostly exponents of the 'misty' school (early 1980s) who revolted strongly against their 'ancestors'.
		Performance poet, Liz Hall-Downs, examines the "art of the literary caberet" - its genesis and its most recent incarnation in Australia.
		Poet, Ron Silliman's weblog provides an energetic and challenging vantage point from which to view or embark on the various adventures provided by contemporary poetry and poetics.
	www.suite101.com /links.cfm/4847 (6705 words)

	HitEmUp.com - Australia: Rap poets' society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Similarly, in Australia, the rhythms and subject matter of hip-hop are not new: Melbourne performance poet Pi O was doing it long before rap became cool, mixing his Greek roots with his Fitzroy working class sensibility to create a powerful monologue of inner-city life as a wog boy.
		But, then, Melbourne has always been in the vanguard of performance poetry or spoken word, as the newer generation prefers to call it, largely because there are more venues for performance.
		Pi O, a veteran of the performance poetry scene, is its unofficial historian.
	www.hitemup.com /news/printit.cgi?id=EpZFEukkkVkSRtEDcA (1586 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry, where poets perform their work and are judged by members of the audience.
		The adult-oriented slams are open to all interested poets and the general poet.
		Poets pay $3 to participate, and general public admission is $5.
	www.aacc-charlotte.org /slam.htm (373 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"the norton anthology of performance poetry for the 21st century".
		when you perform at jam, it could be an audition for poetry-bookers from the entire continent.
		i explained that poets are a moody lot, prone to wildly erratic and impulsive behavior.
	members.aol.com /bowerbird/jam.manual.html (5011 words)

	Rattapallax--FuseBox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Performance poetry is an emerging art form, in its own right, which fuses spoken word with other art forms to become something unique.
		Glenn Carmichael is a respected poet who brought slam to Bristol with Bristol Poetry Slam; he mixes film, visuals, music and words in all of his performances, and has produced a series of well received film.
		My view is that performance poets up and down the UK and globally are producing spoken word that is accessible and has something to say about internal and external contemporary life.
	www.rattapallax.com /fusebox_03poems.htm (2268 words)

	Redwood Poetry Slam II
		Like the first poetry slam in May of this year, which required overflow seating, had poets shouting through the hallowed halls of Redwood Library, and saw audience members laughing out loud and rethinking their notions of what poetry should be.
		Poets compete in elimination rounds by performing their poetry.
		As a result, poets work hard to give life to their poetry.
	www.redwoodlibrary.org /rwnl/slam2.htm (242 words)

	Books: In With the Old, In With the New (Austin Chronicle . 10-26-98)
		Old comes in the form of reissues from the first third of the century already committed to cultural memory; new comes in the form of a trio of performance poets committed to the page.
		Since we're just two months out from the largest gathering of performance poets in one place, and since this place just happened to be Austin, let's start with the new.
		Some of the poems encapsulate variations on the theme of going to the precipice of drug addiction and back again, while others rely on a gleaned observational wisdom that poets, at their best, are supposed to impart to their audience.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-26-98/austin_books_feature1.html (1695 words)

	moving voices - black perfomance poetry
		In this book twelve poets have been interviewed about their childhood and school experiences, how they became poets and who influenced them, how they write and where they have performed, their favourite poets and poems, what they write about and their advice to budding poets.
		The accompanying free CD records the poets performing some of their favourite poems, and these poems are also printed in the book.
		Perhaps it is the emphasis on the craft of performance poetry, the history behind it, the skills and reading required to perfect it, that sets this publication apart.
	www.movingvoices.co.uk /about.HTM (2547 words)

	Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Humanities /Literature /Poetry /Performance /Poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Founded, October 2, 1993, San Francisco The aim of this organization is to develop the art and profession of poetry through performance of poems by the poets themselves, and to develop new contacts with performing poets and audiences all over the world.
		the supersite for performance poetry, from bowerbird intelligentleman
		Essex Hemphill was a writer, poet, performance artist, editor and activist who helped energize the Black gay movement.
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{98130} (405 words)

	Peter Davison Quotes
		But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom.
		Obviously, there is a connection between the outer face of the poet and the persona that emerges in his or her work.
		The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything.
	www.brainyquote.com /quotes/authors/p/peter_davison.html (909 words)

	Adisa Aja Andwele Barbados top performance poets Sierra Leone relief project a gift from Barbados food cloths and books
		However, it was in 1989 with the publication of a collection of poems entitled "Rhythm and Roots" that Aja embarked on a career in performance poetry.
		On June 12th, 1993, he became the first poet in Barbados and the third in the Caribbean to be featured in a calypso tent.
		Aja is a performance poet from Barbados and is a leading exponent of the artform in the Caribbean.
	www.caribzones.com /icerecordsaja.html (492 words)

	Pinoy Poets
		On January 29 and 31, Robinson will train a cadre of performance poets with a view to cascading skills and practice to various schools as well as literary and theatre organisations nationwide.
		His tour also includes a special performance billed as "VENUS TAKES A BITE" at Conspiracy Garden CafÃ© on January 30, with special guests Kooky Tuason, Karen Kunawicz, Charms of Matilda, Rinka, Aimee Marcos, and Annabel Bosch, who will do selections from Romancing Venus, to be followed by band music from The Dorques.
		Pinoypoets is a community of poets and literary enthusiasts which aim to promote and foster appreciation for contemporary Philippine poetry and literature, through sharing of works, peer critiquing, poetry reading, as well as other initiatives, both online and offline.
	www.pinoypoets.com /what.htm (1423 words)

	Index Page for the Poets of the Mocambopo weekly reading series in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Mocambopo Home Mocambopo ...
		Adeena Karasick is a an internationally published poet and performance artist, and is completing her PhD in Montreal exploring the interplay of Kabbalistic/ feminist and deconstructionist discourses.
		Her performances tend to examine her own history (fabulous as it might be in the recounting) toward humorous and occasionally deeper insights into sex, relationships, marriage, power, and art.
		Richard is a poet and the publisher of Victoria's Ekstasis Editions, one of the primary publishers of poetry in the province.
	www.geocities.com /mocambopo/poet_index.html (15960 words)

	Marc Kelly Smith's Press: Articles and Video
		Performance Poets are Reviving Interest in an Art Form: Part 1"
		Performance Poets are Reviving Interest in an Art Form: Part 2"
		Performance Poets are Reviving Interest in an Art Form: Part 3"
	www.slampapi.com /new_site/press/print_90_95.htm (289 words)

	What Big Ears!
		Poetry performance brings into concrete realization the dimension of language itself: the languageness of language, the wordness of language, the acoustic quality of language, that which exists only in and as language.
		When people hear a poet read, they become attuned to the kinds of sounds that that person is producing, which may not be apparent in the printed text of the poem.
		But the reading, the performance, is an extension of what the poem is, and vice-versa (the writing of the poem is an extension of what you're doing in the performance of it).
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/bernstein/interviews/luther.html (3718 words)

	The Big Picture at Beyond Baroque
		Poets' Underground Rail Road: Geographic listing of poetry venues across the U.S., organized to facilitate touring poets.
		Performance Poetry: Currently building "the most comprehensive poetry venues directory on the web".
		Poets For Peace: Listings of events put on by Poets for Peace, a loose organization of poets dedictated to using their artform to promote world peace.
	www.beyondbaroque.org /bigpicture/links.html (780 words)

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