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Michael Browns in Poets Biography & Poetry Resource Directory

The Boston Poetry Slam kicked off in 1991, imported directly from slams birthplace, Chicago, by Michael Brown and Patricia Smith. The slam started at T.T. the Bears, then migrated to the BookCellar. In 1992, when the Cantab Lounge became one of seven hosts for the 1992 International Poetry Slam, the slam settled into its sincepermanant home, making the Boston Poetry Slam the Cantab one of the longestrunning slams in the country and a fixture of the international poetry scene. Boston has sent a team to the National Poetry Slam since the inception of NPS in 1992, winning the whole shebang more than once and always proudly upholding Bostons tradition of poetry

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