poetry slams

In 44 communities across the U.S., teenagers are competing for a spot on their regional poetry teams. This series will follow the stories of six of these teams as they select their poets to compete at the National Slam Poetry championship.

Following the unexpected death of her father, Layken is forced to be strong for her mother and brother. Outwardly she appears to be doing fine, inwardly she is losing hope. When she moves across the country she meets an attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor and within days of their introduction they form an intense connection, giving Layken a renewed sense of hope.

Contains lessons and exercises designed to help students improve their writing and speaking skills by performing poems, each with a stated objective, a procedure, notes on possible stumbling blocks, and extra credit possibilities, and includes a DVD with live student performances.

A guide to the competitive art of slam poetry by Geof Hewitt, with tools for utilizing slam in the classroom or neighborhood, with writing prompts, a two-week repeating curriculum for generating, coaching, and performing original work, and more, with a DVD.

In this novel told in slam verse, best friends and aspiring poets Laura and Twig embark on a road trip after graduating from high school, from Pennsylvania to New York City, to compete at slam poetry events.

A history of the New York City Poetry Slam, a performance poetry competition in which participants recite their own, original work before a panel of five judges selected randomly from the audience, discussing its origins in the 1980s, and following the movement's development over the course of twenty years.