A topical directory of this website:

Aesthetic liaisons	Who did what with whom, from the Chicago Poetry Ensemble through theNeoFuturists.
Convergence	The gathering of the people and conditions which gave rise to slam poetry.
Diaspora	The diffusion of the slam poetry phenomenon into the broader cultural environment.
Early rivals: Boston and Chicago	A scorecard of which cities' teams and individual poets won in what years.
The Chicago Poetry Ensemble	Specifically, who it was.
Ron Gillette	One of Marc Smith's earliest performance poetry influences.
Using the Internet	How Slam poets put the internet to work as a literary, evangelical, and political too.
The NeoFuturists	A theater whose aesthetic and players mixed frequently with Slam.
Sister Cities	Slams which sent poets abroad.
Slam versus the lit critics	The initial antagonism and now somewhat resolved situation between the Academyand Slam.
Where are they now?	A few closing words about the people who launched slam poetry in Chicago and beyond.
copyright (c) 1996 Kurt Heintz