Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slam Poetry, Marc Kelly Smith with Joe Kraynak. Alpha, 2004.
April is poetry month, so I thought I’d try something different. Slam poetry takes poetry to the stage in “competition.” We get the basics of slam and its origins, some tips on performing, and advice on creating slam events. This book is about the structure of slam, and has almost nothing on actually creating poetry. It includes 2 CDs with a sample of readings by a variety of slammers. (Reviewed March, 2006)