The Slam of Slam Poetry

With roots locked in Ancient Greece while sprouting in Chicago, slam poetry coursed its way through the hip-hop age of the nineties and left us with what we have today. An art. A passion. A way to reminisce on the good times and the bad, the funny times and the sad, that leaves the audience craving more.

Tori Amos, a singer-songwriter and contributor to the book, Slam, claims that “we write songs or poems because we don’t express ourselves exactly the way we want to in our everyday lives.

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