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Slam the Radio Show: The Uptown Poetry Slam Live from Chicago’s Green Mill Jazz Lounge
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Recorded ‘Live’ from Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam at the Green Mill Jazz Lounge
With 25 years of poetry slam governance at Chicago’s famous Green Mill Jazz Lounge, poetry slam founder and emcee Marc Kelly Smith welcomes poets to perform in the open mic, feature, and daring poetry slam competition. Listen to the live, raucous words of today’s best performance poets with great music and audience participation.
Who: Hosted by Marc Kelly Smith (So What!)
When: Tuesdays 10 pm EST, Wednesdays 4 pm EST, Fridays 7 pm EST, Saturdays 11 am EST
Tune in: XM Radio 163, Sirius 117
Online at: XM Radio 163, Sirius 117
Downloads Available: Audible.com
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Hi Mark – I love your work and what you’ve created! I’m a singer-poet with roots in the literary world (1989 Wesleyan Univ. Press book “The Transparent Body,” lit mags from Antaeus to City Lights Review, NEA grant, etc.) as well as the jazz world, now performing tunes with a band integrating poetic “rap” and spoken word. I have 4 music CDs out with great national press and radio. My new CD THE POETRY OF GROOVE is just hitting radio and being added to many stations. I’d love to perform and/or be interviewed and/or have tracks played on your show! Here’s my new music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owXjQh9L68g
Are all your broadcasts live ones? Are you still on sabbatical? Looking/hearing forward, thanks, Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
Mark,
I caught your show for the first time tonight, 21 November 2009. I am not a big fan of poetry, but I really enjoyed your show. It was a showcase of your favourite recorded pieces. One of the pieces you played was called “The Word”, but I can not remember the poets name. I would love to know what it is so I can track it down.
Marc, I tuned into your show for the first time and heard a woman who I think was a teacher, read a poem about teenagers I can’t get it out of my head.
I have to know the name of the poet and the poem. It was broadcast Aug 20 about 8pm give or take a half hour. Here are some of the last line of the poem I caught on a recorder I had handy:
“American teenagers have no celebrated rituals of transition, they smash into back seats and stairwells, limbs askew like fireflies caught between fingertips, they sleep online sheets, eat holes, plug themselves into computers overnight, they embed phones into fingertips, filling hallways with smoke and cologne, and curses. It has come to be that he is a bug, a boy, a big boy, she is a gorilla, a girl, a great girl, and no one notices the change over breakfast.”