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| | Austin Downtown Art Magazine Poetry Slam Poetry |
 | | The slam format is a competitive performance where a person performs an original poem, without props, costumes or musical accompaniment, in three minutes and ten seconds or less. |
| | In the print version published in Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, Gibson's utilization of page devices, with the intent to lead the reader towards a reading of the poem similar to Gibson's stage presentation of the work, is only partially successful. |
| | Performance poetry, and the slam in particular, utilize these conventions to benefit the audience and to influence the interpretation of their work. |
| www.diversearts.org /adta_poetry_slampoety.html (1236 words) |
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