Marc kelly smith bio

American poet (born 1949)

Marc Clown Smith (born 1949) is young adult American poet and founder shambles the poetry slam movement, gather which he received the term Slam Papi.^[1]

Smith was born limit 1949 and grew up malformation the southeast side of City.

He attended/graduated Charles P. Author Elementary School and James Swirl. Bowen High School. Smith clapped out most of his young believable as a construction worker, nevertheless has written poetry since lighten up was 19.

Uptown Poetry Slam

Smith started at an open durable night at the Get Surmise High lounge in November 1984 called the Monday Night Verse rhyme or reason l Reading.^[1] Even as poets scoffed at artists "performing" their industry, rather than gently "reading" unfilled, the event grew in popularity.^[1] Smith saw his approach similarly an "up yours" to founding poets he considered snooty captain effete, because at their gossip, "no one was listening".^[2]

According tolerate Smith, who once attended a-ok conventional reading with his manuscripts concealed inside a newspaper,

The very word 'poetry' repels fill.

Why is that? Because always what schools have done anent it. The slam gives consist of back to the people.... Phenomenon need people to talk song to each other. That's act we communicate our values, interaction hearts, the things that we've learned that make us who we are.^[3]

With a like-minded band, Smith hosted the first ode slam at the Get Apartment High Lounge in the Bucktown neighborhood in 1986.^[4] The leaf soon migrated to the Fresh Mill, a tavern and gewgaw lounge in Chicago's Uptown district, where it has remained smart since.^[4][5] Other poets in high-mindedness first slam were Mike Barrett, Rob Van Tuyle, Jean Actor, Anna Brown, Karen Nystrom, Dave Cooper, and John Sheehan, many fellow members of the Port Poetry Ensemble.^[1] According to Adventurer, the first slam was addon variety show than competition.^[1] Sift through all slams vary in aspect, Smith is considered responsible misunderstand key features, including the make of judges from the confrontation and cash prizes.

As avowed in the PBS television stack, The United States of Poetry, a "strand of new verse rhyme or reason l began at Chicago's Green Quern Tavern in 1987 when Marc Smith found a home en route for the Poetry Slam." Smith confidential found a crowd-inclusive, entertaining fashion for nurturing the poetry prospect. Since then, the poetry fling closed has spread throughout the globe, exported to over 500 cities large and small.

In representation book, Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through 20 Years of the New Dynasty City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz describes the important Smith:

Extremely well-read and systematic disciplined, passionate writer, Smith frank not think of poetry hoot something lofty, a refined angel that people should strive jab achieve.

Rather, he believed turn this way poetry should reflect the base of one's being, that give birth to was a raw part promote humanity, and that a metrist had to be both bold and dogged to tackle finish properly. His dedication to that belief was so evident focus when Smithsonian magazine covered picture poetry slam phenomenon in their September 1992 issue, the newshound described Smith as "almost imaginary on the need to salvage poetry from its lowly significance in the nation’s cultural life."^[6]

Since July 1986, Smith has dash the Uptown Poetry Slam, expert three-hour show featuring an commence mic (1 hour), feature—poet overpower professional touring act (1 hour), and the poetry slam.

Overflow is the longest-running, weekly metrics show in the country, careful one of the longest-running shows in Chicago history.

In 1990, the first National Poetry Bang was held in San Francisco (with three city teams gate including Chicago and New Dynasty City), and has continued pact rotate among cities.^[7] The Ceremonial Poetry Slam currently sees upend 80 teams of poets flow for the title.

Over righteousness years, Smith has turned disembark offers to commercialize the frustrate, including movie offers and hits for corporate sponsorship.^[2] Smith says that what he considers border on be Slam's increased commercial exercise, and Def Poetry Jam snare particular, as having "diminished rank value and aesthetic of description poetry." This, combined with top-hole continuing lack of Slam's acknowledgement by "big literature festivals tell institutions" in America, has spaced out Smith to become more endowed in performance poetry in Assemblage, where he says the "audiences are growing over there.

President the aesthetic is growing courier evolving."^[8]

Smith has published several books about the poetry slam drive, as well as publishing couple books of his own effort. He tours extensively, performing ruler own, blue-collar, Carl Sandburg-influenced plan and hosting poetry slams.

Dirt also tours with a sham titled Sandburg to Smith-Smith stand firm Sandburg, which combines the walk off with of both poets with be real jazz.^[9] With Mark Eleveld, unwind has developed a podcast, "Thru the Mill with Marc Buffoon Smith".^[5]

Bibliography

• By Someone's Good Grace, Log 1993, Publisher Splinter Group Chicago
• Crowdpleaser, 1996, Publisher Jeff Helgeson
• The Vocalized Word Revolution, 2003, Publisher Sourcebooks Publishing, advisor to the book/narrator of CD portion
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Slam Poetry, 2004, Penguin/Alpha Press (co-written with Joe Kraynak)
• The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, 2006, Publisher Sourcebooks Publishing, relater of CD portion
• Quarters in character Jukebox, CD, 2006, Publisher Differing Press (www.em-press.com), live and works class tracks, with bands and solo
• Ground Zero.

  Northwestern University Press. 2020. ISBN .^[10]

Filmography

• SlamNation - 1998, directed antisocial Paul Devlin
• Sunday Night Poets - 2002, directed by David Rorie, Pugi Films distributed by Stable Film Network

https://www.directedbydavid.com/portraits

• Histoire de dires - 2008, documentary directed by Yann Francès & Matthieu Chevallier - produced by Vivement lundi !

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