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Spoken Word and Slam Poetry

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Paul Tran is a Vietnamese American historian and spoken word poet. He won "Best Poet" and "Pushing the Art Forward" at the national college poetry slam, as well as awards and fellowships from Kundiman, Poets House, Lambda... more

Adam Falkner is an artist, educator and scholar. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Dialogue Arts Project, and an Arthur Zankel Fellow at Columbia University's Teachers College, where is a PhD student in the English Education... more

Mike Gerbino is an accomplished hip-hop artist, spoken word poet and filmmaker. Known for his personal, political and satirical approach, Mike has been featured in numerous blogs and publications, most notably on HBO's ?Brave New Voices?... more

Sam Rush was raised in South Florida, but now makes poems and songs in and around New Hampshire. Sam got to writing poems after developing progressive hearing loss as a teenager and noticing how many words each word could be.... more

John Crow was born in Detroit Mi. he is a blend of Native American and Kentucky Hillbilly. He has been involved with performance poetry for the past 15 years. As the founding Slam-master of Killeen Poetry Slam, he has also... more

Damien Flores hails from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received a BA in English and Chicano Studies from the University of New Mexico in 2009 and was recipient of the 2008 Lena Todd Award for creative non-fiction from the UNM English... more

Danez Smith is the winner of a 2014 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is the author of ?[insert] boy? (YesYes Books, 2014) & two chapbooks– ?black movie? (Button Poetry, 2015),... more

Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He was the star of the award winning full-length documentary ?Louder Than A Bomb? and has been featured on HBO's ?Brave New Voices. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing... more

Baruch Porras Hernandez has performed his writing all over California, from Museums to barbershops, to universities and even caves. He's featured at poetry events in Canada, Washington D.C., L.A., and NYC. His work can be found in... more

Danez Smith is the winner of a 2014 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is the author of ?[insert] boy? (YesYes Books, 2014) & two chapbooks– ?black movie? (Button Poetry, 2015),... more

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