[[Category:African-American culture]]
==Bibliography==
* Miguel Algarin & [[Bob Holman]], ''ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe''
* [[Marc Smith (poet)|Marc Smith]], ''Crowdpleaser''
* [[Gary Mex Glazner]], ''Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry''
* [[Susan Somers-Willett]], ''The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America''
* [[Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz]], ''Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam''
* [[Big Poppa E]], ''The Wussy Boy Manifesto''
* [[Beau Sia]], ''A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge''
* [[Daphne Gottlieb]], ''Final Girl,'' ''Pelt,'' ''Why Things Burn,'' and ''15 Ways to Stay Alive''
* [[Douglas A. Martin]], ''In the Time of Assignments''
* [[Glenis Redmond]], ''Backbone,'' ''Under the Sun,''
* [[Jeffrey McDaniel]], ''Alibi School,'' ''The Forgiveness Parade,'' and ''The Splinter Factory''
* [[Jessica Care Moore]], ''The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto,'' ''The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth,'' and ''God Is Not an American''
* [[Justin Chin]], ''Bite Hard,'' ''Harmless Medicine,'' and ''Gutted''
* [[M. Ayodele Heath]], ''Otherness''
* [[Michael Salinger]], ''Neon,'' ''Outspoken,'' and ''Well Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme'' (with [[Sam Henderson]])
* [[Patricia Smith (poet)|Patricia Smith]], ''Big Towns, Big Talk : Poems,'' ''Close to Death : Poems,'' ''Life According to Motown'', ''Teahouse Of The Almighty'', and ''Blood Dazzler''
* [[Rachel McKibbens]], ''Pink Elephant''
* [[Lucy Anderton]], ''the flung you''
* [[Ragan Fox]], ''Heterophobia'' and ''Exile in Gayville''
* [[Regie Gibson]], ''Storms Beneath the Skin''
* [[Shane Koyczan]], ''Visiting Hours''
* [[Tara Betts]], ''Arc and Hue''
* [[Taylor Mali]], ''What Learning Leaves,'' and ''Top Secret Slam Strategies''
* Helen Gregory, The Quiet Revolution of Poetry Slam: The Sustainability of Cultural Capital in the Light of Changing Artistic Conventions. "Ethnography and Education", Vol. 3 (1): 61-71.
* [[Roger Bonair-Agard]], ''Gully'' and ''Tarnish and Masquerade''
* [[Saul Williams]], ''The Seventh Octave,'' ''she,'' ''said the shotgun to the head,'' and ''The Dead Emcee Scrolls''
* [[Tyehimba Jess]], ''leadbelly''
* [[Sonya Renee Taylor]] ''A Little Truth On Your Shirt''
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