< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City </ div > A poetry slam is a competition at which poets read or recite original work.

Bob Holman, a poetry activist and former slammaster of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, once called the movement " the democratization of verse.

In his 2005 interview in Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, he recalls seeing his first slam, at the Nuyorican Poets Café:

* Hal Sirowitz ( who was on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team in 1993 ) won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 1994

* Adrienne Su ( who was on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team in 1991 ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2007

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* Miguel Algarin & Bob Holman, ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets ' Cafe

< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City </ div > The term " performance poetry " originates from an early press release describing the popular 1980s performance poet Hedwig Gorski, whose audio recordings achieved success on spoken word radio programs around the world.

Venues like Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City and mass media formats, like Gorski's and John Giorno's, form the two lines of influence leading to Def Poetry on HBO.

Some famous landmarks include Tompkins Square Park and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Well known Puerto Rican authors from this period include novelist Nicholasa Mohr, playwright José Rivera, poet Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Some landmarks with Alphabet City include Tompkins Square Park and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe has been located off Avenue C and East 3rd Street since its founding in 1973

* Nuyorican Poets Cafe – music, poetry, readings, slams

The Nuyorican Poets Café on New York ’ s Lower Eastside was founded in 1973 and is one of the oldest American venues for presenting spoken word poetry.

The Nuyorican Poets Café in 1989 held the first documented poetry slam.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Alphabet City, Manhattan, New YorkNuyorican is a portmanteau of the terms " New York " and " Puerto Rican " and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora located in or around New York State especially the New York City metropolitan area, or of their descendants ( especially those raised or still living in the New York area ).

Nuyorican itself dates at least from 1975, the date of the first public sessions of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

* Nuyorican Poets Café

* Pedro Pietri, co-founder of Nuyorican Poets Café

* Miguel Algarín, co-founder of Nuyorican Poets Café

Miguel Piñero ( December 19, 1946 – June 18, 1988 ) was a Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe

In the 1970s, Piñero co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café with a group of artists, one of which, Miguel Algarín, would become one of his best friends.

The Café is a place for performance of poetry about the experience of being a Nuyorican or Puerto Rican in New York.

Schizophonic also featured two new rappers, Akil Dasan and Gaston, both of whom Wilkinson found at New York ’ s underground hangout, the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Another name worthy of mention is the Nuyorican Poets Café founded by Puerto Rican playwright Miguel Algarín in the mid 1970's.

In 1997, Dumile began freestyling incognito at open-mic events at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, obscuring his face by putting a stocking over his head.

It was founded by Bob Holman, owner of the building and former Nuyorican Poets Café Poetry Slam MC ( 1988 – 1996 ).

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

Algarín, Miguel Piñero, and other poets rented a location on East 6th Street and named it the Nuyorican Poets Café.

< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Café.

The Café also has a radio broadcast on WBAI, where Algarín starts the broadcast with his signature " We're live from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe ".

The landmark Nuyorican Poets Café is a bastion of the Nuyorican Movement, an intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists of Puerto Rican descent, mostly notably the late Pedro Pietri and Giannina Braschi.

Pedro Pietri ( March 21, 1944March 3, 2004 ), was a Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café.

< div style =" text-align: center ; border: none "> Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Photo: Shankbone </ div > Pietri helped found the Nuyorican Poets Café, together with Miguel Piñero and Miguel Algarín.

*" Verbs On Asphalt: A History of the Nuyorican Poetry Slam "

The documentary film SlamNation follows Williams and the other members of the 1996 Nuyorican Poets Slam team ( Beau Sia, muMs da Schemer, and Jessica Care Moore ) as they compete in the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, Oregon.

Algarín edited with Miguel Piñero Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings.

* Miguel Piñero, co-founder of Nuyorican Poetry movement

In 1997, Olson began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where she eventually made the 1998 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team.

She and her fellow Nuyorican team members Lynne Procope, Steve Coleman and Guy LeCharles Gonzalez would go on to win the 1998 National Poetry Slam Championship that year in Austin, TX.

" In the first published collection of Nuyorican poetry ( Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings edited by Miguel Algarín and Miguel Piñero in 1975 ), his contribution was a poem consisting entirely of punctuation marks.

* Miguel Piñero, co-founder of Nuyorican Poetry movement

In 1996, the Nuyorican Poets Café Poetry Slam Team was the subject of a feature-length documentary film entitled SlamNation.

Directed by Paul Devlin, the film follows Holman and the poets of the 1996 Nuyorican team ( Saul Williams, Beau Sia, Jessica Care Moore and mums da Schemer ) as they compete in the 1996 National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon.

In 1990, Paul Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.