Editing Poetry slam (section)

==History==
[[File:Marc Smith - Slam à La Zone de Liege - 19 mars 2009.jpg|thumb|left|[[Marc Smith (poet)|Marc Smith]]]]
American poet [[Marc Smith (poet)|Marc Smith]] was credited with starting the poetry slam at the Get Me High Lounge in [[Chicago]] in November 1984. In July 1986, the original slam moved to its permanent home, the [[Green Mill Jazz Club]].<ref name="marc smith">{{Cite web|url=http://marckellysmith.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216003323/http://marckellysmith.com/#/history/|url-status=dead|title=Sex Dating Sites|archivedate=February 16, 2009|website=Kelly Sex Apps}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mehroz-baig/slam-poetry-a-history_b_4944799.html|title=Slam Poetry: A History|last=Baig|first=Mehroz|date=2014-03-12|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-17}}</ref> In 1987, the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam was founded by Vince Keuter and eventually made its home at the Heidelberg (moving later 2010, 2013, and 2015 to its new home at Espresso Royale). In August 1988, the first poetry slam held in New York City was hosted by Bob Holman at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.<ref name=":02">{{cite book|author=Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe|title=Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam|location=New York|publisher=Soft Skull Press|year=2008}}</ref> In 1990, the first [[National Poetry Slam]] took place at [[Fort Mason]], [[San Francisco]]. This slam included teams from Chicago and San Francisco, and an individual poet from New York.<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.poetryslam.com/faq/nps|title =PSI FAQ: National Poetry Slam|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201141/http://www.poetryslam.com/faq/nps|archive-date =2013-10-29}}</ref> Soon afterward, poetry slam increased popularity allowed some poets to make full-time careers in performance and competition, touring the United States and eventually the world.<ref name=":02" />

In 1999, National Poetry Slam, held in major cities each year, was in Chicago. The event was covered nationally by ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[60 Minutes]]'' (CBS). ''60 Minutes'' taped a 20 segment on slam poetry with live poetry scenes at Chopin Theatre.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chopintheatre.com/event.php?id=1369&pageId=archives | title=National Poetry Slam Guild Complex | work=Chicago Tribune | date=August 16, 1999 |author=Sid Smith}}</ref>

In 2001, the grounding of aircraft following the [[September 11 attacks]] left a number of performers stranded in cities they had been performing in.<ref name=":02"/> After the attacks, a new wave of poetry slam started within San Francisco.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

{{As of|2017}}, the National Poetry Slam featured 72 certified teams, culminating in five days of competition.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2014/08/15/d-c-s-beltway-poetry-slam-triumphs-at-the-national-poetry-slam | title=D.C.'s Beltway Poetry Slam triumphs at the National Poetry Slam | newspaper=Washington Post | date=August 15, 2014 | access-date=June 4, 2016 | author=Sadie Dingfelder}}</ref>

Today, there are poetry slam competitions in a number of countries around the globe.

[[Poetry Slam, Inc.]] used to sanction three major annual poetry competitions (for poets 18+) on a national and international scale: the [[National Poetry Slam]] (NPS), the [[individual World Poetry Slam]] (iWPS), and the [[Women of the World Poetry Slam]] (WoWPS). The last National Poetry Slam took place in Chicago 2018, after which PSi's voting body elected to cease its three major 2019 poetry slams.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Javon |last2=Blacksher |first2=Anthony |editor1-last=Yu |editor1-first=Timothy |title=The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-48209-7 |page=177 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzQTEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22poetry%20slam%20incorporated%22&pg=PA177 |language=en |chapter=Give Me Poems and Give Me Death: On the End of Slam(?)}}</ref> The WoWPS has been held since 2020 through a new website.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wowpsfest.com/ | title=Womxn of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS) | access-date=September 24, 2023}}</ref>