- male, 59 years old
- Born on the southeast side of Chicago in 1950, Marc Kelly Smith is the founder of the Poetry Slam. He spent most of his young life as a...
- female, 54 years old
- Patricia Smith (1955) is a poet, spoken word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist. She was born in Chicago and...
- male, 33 years old
- Michael Matthew McGee, more commonly known as Mighty Mike McGee, (born January 12, 1976) is an American slam poet. Born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky,...
- male
- Michael Salinger is a poet/performer and educator living in Northeast Ohio. He is an early participant in the National Poetry Slam, former board...
- male, 33 years old
- Ragan Cooper Fox (born May 9, 1976 in Houston, Texas) is a gay poet and performance artist who is an assistant professor of communication at...
- male
- Matt Mason is a poet based in Omaha, Nebraska. He has published eight chapbooks and one full-length work of poetry as well as two anthologies....
- female, 46 years old
- She goes by the nom de plume Nina to ease the pronunciation of her name. She performs her controversial pieces throughout the Mission District and...
- female, 32 years old
- Karyna McGlynn (born 1977 in Austin, Texas) is an American poet. Karyna first became popular as a performance poet in the poetry slam scene in the...
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