Explore: Performance Poetry

Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. It covers a variety of styles and genres. The

Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular

and performance, often incorporating broader forms of performance art while poetry is read or created in that moment. Poetry portal Anti-poetry Digital

open-microphone poetry readings, and then turning them into slams by introducing the element of competition. The performances at a poetry slam are judged

activities. As genres of performance art appear body art, fluxus-performance, happening, action poetry, and intermedia. Performance art is a form of expression

content." Performance poetry in Africa dates to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry, while elegiac and panegyric court poetry were developed

Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry of Jamaican origin, which evolved out of dub music in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1970s, as well as in London

Button Poetry is a Minneapolis-based poetry company and independent publisher of performance poetry. They are known for their viral videos of slam poetry performances

the Larks in the Park music festival at Sefton Park (1982). He performed poetry reading poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, W. H. Auden and E. E. Cummings, at

This type of performance comes in many varieties, including autobiographical creations, comedy acts, novel adaptations, vaudeville, poetry, music and dance