![]() ![]() Poetry slams, or spoken word competitions, began in the 1980s. ![]() MTV helped this along by scouting for talent at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, which brought poets such as Maggie Estep to the show MTV Unplugged. In the 1990s, alongside a resurgence in popularity of the 1950s and ‘60s Beat poets, this began to grow into modern spoken word poetry. ![]() In the early 1970s, the New York City-based Nuyorican Poets Cafe gave playwrights, poets, and musicians of color who weren’t accepted by the mainstream a platform to promote their work and, specifically, popularized performance poetry. The slam and spoken word poetry scene that Xiomara discovers, however, is its own distinct movement that has historically been extremely diverse. Poetry has contained a performance element since ancient times because, until the advent of the printing press, hearing poetry was often the only way to experience it. ![]()
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