The Sport For Smart People
A competitions for poets.
Rules: poets perform an original creation no longer than three minutes, no costumes, props or pre-recorded music.
Format: judges are randomly selected from the audience. They score a poet on a scale between 1 and 10.
This year's National Poetry Slam will be in Minneapolis.
Poets that slamming made famous: Maggie Estep, Hal Sirowitz, Reg E. Gaines. Poets slamming destroyed: M. Christian Robinson.