Beyond Baroque Presents with Guest Marc Slampappy Smith

Join Doug Knott as he Talks to Marc Smith who will be reading At Beyond Baroque at 2pm march 27 ... 1o am pacific 12 central 1 pm eastern MARC SMITH (SO WHAT!) Slampapi the founder of the Poetry Slam Marc Smith is best known for bringing to the worldwide poetry community a new style of poetic presentation that has spawned one the most important social/literary arts movements of our time. As stated in the PBS television series, The United States of Poetry, a “strand of new poetry began at Chicago’s Green Mill Tavern in 1987 when Marc Smith found a home for the Poetry Slam.” Since then, performance poetry has spread throughout the country and across the globe to hundreds of cities, universities, high schools, festivals, and cultural centers. Each year, teams from American and European cities compete in National Poetry Slams, extravagant homespun