The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation (A Poetry Speaks Experience) Eleveld, Mark

Eleveld, Mark

ISBN 10: 1402202466 / ISBN 13: 9781402202469

Verlag: Sourcebooks MediaFusion 2005-03-01, 2005

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Pages are clean with no markings (CD included). Ships promptly.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers NYUMA-00104-09-06-2024

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation (A Poetry Speaks Experience) Eleveld, Mark
• Verlag: Sourcebooks MediaFusion 2005-03-01
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1402202466
• ISBN-13: 9781402202469
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Describes how contemporary poetry intended to be spoken out loud has brought about a revitalization of interest in poetry, and presents works by more than forty leading poets.

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Mark Eleveld is copublisher at EM Press and a board member of the Midland Authors Society in Chicago. He is a freelance writer and book reviewer for the Kankakee Daily Journal in Illinois. Mark Eleveld did press relations for poet Marc Smith from 1993 to 1996. He teaches English at Joliet West High School and is a philosophy instructor at the University of St. Francis in Illinois. He lives in Joliet, Illinois.

Few people can say that they single-handedly created a whole new art form. Marc Smith is one of those people. Since Marc began the Poetry Slam in 1987, competitive performance poetry has spread throughout the world. Through his creation of the Uptown Poetry Slam and many poetry organizations and ensembles such as the Pong Unit One, the Bob Shakespeare Band, Neutral Turf's Chicago Poetry Festival and the Poetic Theatre Project, Marc has influenced and inspired poets to shake off the notion that poetry belongs only to the high-minded. Author of Crowdpleasers, Marc has performed poetry to more than one hundred thousand people during his sixteen-year-strong weekly show at the Green Mill Lounge in Chicago. He lives in Chicago.