1. SLAM POETRY
The performance of poetry expresses emotion and many times is used as a method to passionately prove a point; however, it bears multiple critics especially in its relation to academia.
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2. What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali
3. What is Slam Poetry?
a form of performance poetry that occurs within a competitive poetry event, called a slam, at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are judged on a numeric scale by randomly picked members of the audience.

Invented by Marc Smith in Chicago in 1984