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I ran across a pithy history of Slam Poetry, the more or less competitive version of what's known as Spoken Word nowadays. Here is a link to the timeline:
http://www.slampapi.com/new_site/background/slam_timeline.htm
This history credits Marc Kelly Smith, a construction-worker in Chicago, with starting the Slam movement.
Smith now hosts poetry-shows on both Sirius and Xm radio (as the image above advertises).
If Slam Poetry is like other developments, movements, or "schools" in literary and poetic history, then its origins are no doubt in dispute. Nonetheless, let the words be spoken.
