Poetry slam
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A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges.
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City
Marc Smith
Poetry slam in Paide, Estonia
Bob Holman
Harold Bloom
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Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking wo
Poetry slam
…and for its features, e.g., "slam voice," which may limit the range of emotion it can express. In an interview in the Paris Review, literary critic Harold Bloom wrote I can't bear these accounts I read in the Times and elsewhere of these poetry slams, in which various young men and women in various late-spots…
Bloom in 1986
A lion-faced deity associated with Gnosticism. Bloom frequently referred to Gnosticism when speaking about general and personal religious matters.
Photo portrait from the dust jacket of Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (1982)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)