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Performance poetry

Index Performance poetry

Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. [1]

134 relations: Aaron Williamson, Adrian Henri, Adrian Mitchell, Alan Kaufman (writer), Albert Huffstickler, Allen Ginsberg, Alliteration, American poetry, Apples and Snakes, Arts festival, Attila the Stockbroker, Audience, Austin, Texas, Australian performance poetry, Author, Avant-garde, Basil Bunting, Bath Spa University, Beat Generation, Billy Bragg, Bob Cobbing, Bob Holman, Bobby Wellins, Book, Brian Patten, British literature, British Poetry Revival, Broadway theatre, Caridad de la Luz, Charles Bernstein, Charles Olson, Chicago, Chicano, Cid Corman, Clive Sansom, Compact Cassette, Conceptual art, Cris Cheek, D'Jalma Garnier, David Antin, David Jewell (poet), Def Jam Recordings, Def Poetry Jam, Edinburgh, Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Torres (poet), Elizabethan era, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fluxus poetry, France, ..., Francesca Beard, Futurist, Gary Snyder, Giannina Braschi, Ginsberg, Glastonbury Festival, Greece, Gregory Corso, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Happening, Harryette Mullen, HBO, Hedwig Gorski, Hip hop music, Hispanic, Human voice, International Poetry Incarnation, Isabella Russell-Ides, Jack Kerouac, Jazz, Jerome Rothenberg, John Cooper Clarke, John F. Kennedy, John Giorno, John Hegley, John Trudell, Kenning, Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky, Language poets, Latino, Laurie Anderson, Lemn Sissay, Linton Kwesi Johnson, List of literary movements, List of performance poets, Liverpool poets, Louis Zukofsky, Madrigal, Marc Smith (poet), Maryland Institute College of Art, Michael Horovitz, Miguel Algarín, Minority group, Murray Lachlan Young, National Endowment for the Arts, Native Americans in the United States, New York City, Nuyorican Poets Café, Oral poetry, Pedro Pietri, Performance art, Pete Brown, Poetry, Poetry reading, Poetry slam, Postmodernism, Pub, Pump organ, Punk subculture, Radio, Reggae, Rhyme, Robert Burns, Robert Creeley, Robert Frost, Robert Pinsky, Roger McGough, Roger Robinson (poet), Roxy Gordon, Russell Simmons, San Francisco, Spoken word, Stan Tracey, Stand-up comedy, The Austin Chronicle, Theatre, Third Coast, Tony Award, Verse (poetry), Vito Acconci, W. Joe Hoppe, William Blake, William S. Burroughs, Willie Perdomo. Expand index (84 more) »

Aaron Williamson

Aaron Williamson (born 4 June 1992) is a British racing driver who competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2012.

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Adrian Henri

Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group the Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough.

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Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist and playwright.

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Alan Kaufman (writer)

Alan Kaufman is an American writer, memoirist and poet.

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Albert Huffstickler

Albert Huffstickler (December 17, 1927 – February 25, 2002) was an American poet.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Alliteration

Alliteration is a figure of speech and a stylistic literary device which is identified by the repeated sound of the first or second letter in a series of words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase.

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American poetry

American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies (although before this unification, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies).

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Apples and Snakes

Apples and Snakes, based at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, south-east London, is an organisation for performance poetry and the spoken word in England.

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Arts festival

An arts festival is a festival that can encompass a wide range of art genres including music, dance, film, fine art, literature, poetry etc.

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Attila the Stockbroker

John Baine (born 21 October 1957), better known by his stage name Attila the Stockbroker,Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate,, p. 208 is a punk poet, and a folk punk musician and songwriter.

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Audience

An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called "readers"), theatre, music (in which they are called "listeners"), video games (in which they are called "players"), or academics in any medium.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Australian performance poetry

Australian performance poetry is not a recent phenomenon in English-speaking Australia.

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Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Basil Bunting

Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966.

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Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus based at Newton Park on Duchy of Cornwall land.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Billy Bragg

Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.

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Bob Cobbing

Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.

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Bob Holman

Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam.

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Bobby Wellins

Robert Coull Wellins (24 January 1936 – 27 October 2016) was a Scottish tenor saxophonist best known for his collaboration with Stan Tracey on the British jazz album Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" (1965).

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Book

A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition contained in it.

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Brian Patten

Brian Patten (born 29 February 1946) is an English poet and author.

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British literature

British literature is literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands.

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British Poetry Revival

"The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Caridad de la Luz

Caridad de la Luz (born January 21, 1977), a.k.a. "La Bruja" (The "Good" Witch), is a Puerto Rican poet, actress and activist.

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Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar.

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Charles Olson

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicano

Chicano or Chicana (also spelled Xicano or Xicana) is a chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States.

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Cid Corman

Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.

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Clive Sansom

Clive Sansom (21 June 1910 – 29 March 1981) was an English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Conceptual art

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

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Cris Cheek

cris cheek (intentionally uncapitalized) is a multimodal poet, performance writer, and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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D'Jalma Garnier

D'Jalma Garnier III (born 1954, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) is a musician and composer best known for Creole and Cajun fiddle and "outside" musical compositions and collaborations with other artists.

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David Antin

David Abram Antin (February 1, 1932 – October 11, 2016) was an American poet, critic and performance artist.

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David Jewell (poet)

David Jewell (born 1955) is an American performance poet.

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Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings is an American record label focused predominantly on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Def Poetry Jam

Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry, better known as simply Def Poetry Jam or Def Poetry, was a spoken word poetry television series hosted by Mos Def and airing on HBO between 2002 and 2007.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edwin Morgan (poet)

Edwin George Morgan (27 April 1920 – 17 August 2010), The Independent.

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Edwin Torres (poet)

Edwin Torres (born 1958) is a Puerto Rican poet.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Fluxus poetry

Fluxus poetry is normally created during a performance, an essential difference with visual poetry.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Francesca Beard

Francesca Beard (born 1968 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a writer and performance poet.

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Futurist

Futurists or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose specialty is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.

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Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters.

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Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican writer.

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Ginsberg

Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Gensburg, Ginsburgh, Ginzberg, Ginzborg, and Ginzburg are variants of the same surname derived from the surname Günzburg.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England.

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Greece

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Gregory Corso

Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs).

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator.

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Happening

A happening is a performance, event, or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art.

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Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen (born July 1, 1953), Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles, is an American poet, short story writer, and literary scholar.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Hedwig Gorski

Hedwig Gorski (born July 18, 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism." The term "performance poetry," a precursor to slam poetry, is attributed to her.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hispanic

The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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International Poetry Incarnation

The International Poetry Incarnation was an event at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 11 June 1965.

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Isabella Russell-Ides

Isabella Russell-Ides (born January 24, 1948) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist.

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg (born December 11, 1931) is an American poet, translator and anthologist, noted for his work in the fields of ethnopoetics and performance poetry.

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John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s when he became known as a "punk poet".

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Giorno

John Giorno (born December 4, 1936) is an American poet and performance artist.

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John Hegley

John Richard Hegley (born 1 October 1953) is an English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter.

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John Trudell

John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist.

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Kenning

A kenning (Old Norse pronunciation:, Modern Icelandic pronunciation) is a type of circumlocution, in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

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Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky

Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuzminsky (16 April 1940 – 2 May 2015) (Kонстантин Константинович Кузьминский) was a Russian performance poet.

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Language poets

The Language poets (or ''L.

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Latino

Latino is a term often used in the United States to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America, in contrast to Hispanic which is a demonym that includes Spaniards and other speakers of the Spanish language.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay (born 21 May 1967) is a British author and broadcaster.

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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ, born 24 August 1952) is a Jamaican dub poet who has long been based in the UK.

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List of literary movements

This is a list of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance.

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List of performance poets

The following is a partial list of performance poets.

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Liverpool poets

The Liverpool Poets are a number of influential 1960s poets from Liverpool, England, influenced by 1950s Beat poetry.

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Louis Zukofsky

Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet.

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Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

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Marc Smith (poet)

Marc Kelly Smith (born 1949) is an American poet and founder of the poetry slam movement, for which he received the nickname Slam Papi.

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Maryland Institute College of Art

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is an art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Michael Horovitz

Michael Horovitz (born 4 April 1935) is a British poet, editor, artist and translator.

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Miguel Algarín

Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941), is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and retired Rutgers University professor of English.

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Minority group

A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.

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Murray Lachlan Young

Murray Lachlan Young (born 14 March 1969) is a British poet, stand-up performer, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter and children’s author.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nuyorican Poets Café

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a nonprofit organization in Alphabet City in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

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Oral poetry

Oral poetry is poetry that is composed and transmitted without the aid of writing.

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Pedro Pietri

Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 – March 3, 2004) was a Nuyorican poet and playwright and a founder of the Nuyorican Movement.

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Performance art

Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.

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Pete Brown

Peter Ronald Brown (25 December 1940) is an English performance poet, lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Poetry reading

A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry.

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Poetry slam

A poetry slam is a competition in which poets perform spoken word poetry.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Pump organ

The pump organ, reed organ, harmonium, or melodeon is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame.

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Punk subculture

Punk subculture includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Robert Creeley

Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.

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Roger McGough

Roger McGough CBE, FRSL (born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright.

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Roger Robinson (poet)

Roger Robinson is a writer, musician and performer who lives between England and Trinidad.

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Roxy Gordon

Roxy Gordon (March 7, 1945 – February 7, 2000) was a Choctaw and Assiniboine poet, novelist, musician and activist.

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Russell Simmons

Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, record producer, and author.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.

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Stan Tracey

Stanley William Tracey CBE (30 December 1926 – 6 December 2013) was a British jazz pianist and composer, whose most important influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk.

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Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them.

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The Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Third Coast

Third Coast is an American colloquialism used to describe coastal regions distinct from the West Coast and the East Coast of the United States.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Verse (poetry)

In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.

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Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design.

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W. Joe Hoppe

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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Willie Perdomo

Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican poet and children's book author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_poetry

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