* National Poetry Month ( United States )

* National Poetry Writing Month

In 1990, the first National Poetry Slam took place in Fort Mason, San Francisco, involving a team from Chicago, a team from San Francisco, and an individual poet from New York.

Poetry Slam, Inc. holds several National and World Poetry Slams, including the Individual World Poetry Slam, The National Poetry Team Slam and The Women of the World Poetry Slam.

The current ( 2011 ) National Poetry Slam Team champions are Denver ( Slam Nuba ), Colorado.

As of 2011, four poets who have competed at National Poetry Slam have won National Endowment of the Arts ( NEA ) Fellowships for Literature:

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.

Henry Taylor, winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, competed in the 1997 National Poetry Slam as an individual and placed 75th out of 150.

* Results of the National Poetry Slam

* Documentary Film about the National Poetry Slam

* Poetry Today ( British Council and National British League ).

Williams won the first National Book Award for Poetry, recognizing both the third volume of Paterson and Selected Poems.

In May 1963, he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems ( 1962 ) and the Gold Medal for Poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

* Fred Jones, a National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player, 2004 NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner, and current Guard-Forward for the New York Knicks

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* National Poetry Slam, a performance poetry competition

He was well known for slam dunking from the free throw line in Slam Dunk Contests and was the only player voted Most Valuable Player in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association.

She was a member of the 1998 and 1999 National Poetry Slam teams representing the Austin Poetry Slam.

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The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

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Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

The acceptance of collective bargaining as a national policy in 1934, implicit in the writing of Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act, has made it impolitic to oppose collective bargaining in principle.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

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One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

The award has been shared twice: once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the National League in 1976 ; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the American League in 1979.

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