Jump to navigation

Login | Register

Join our mailing list

The Performance Poetry Preservation Project

A digital home for the first 25 years of the poetry slam movement. Audio. Video. Print. Poetry.

The Birth of Verse, Vol. 1


[Open in new window]
Object Name:
The Birth of Verse, Vol. 1 (Object ID: 1715)
Accession:
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - The Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Chapbook Collection (appx 400 volumes), plus 80 cassette tapes and miscellaneous other items
Object Artist(s):
Tony Brown, Karrie L. Waarala, Shailja Patel, Ragan Fox, Rachel Kann, Walidah Imarisha, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Object Type:
Print
Object Subtype:
Anthology
Record Date:
City:
State/Province:
Country:
United States

Performances:

  • 2 - Unknown - A Prayer to the Literary Gods and Goddesses
  • 5 - Tony Brown - Political Art
  • 8 - Unknown - Explanation to the Next One
  • 11 - Unknown - Cavity
  • 14 - Unknown - Unnamed
  • 17 - Karrie L. Waarala - Revelations
  • 21 - Shailja Patel - How Big is Your Voice?
  • 25 - Unknown - Different
  • 29 - Unknown - Critically Thinking
  • 33 - Unknown - Heavy (or The Unbearable Lightness of Eating)
  • 36 - Unknown - Count the Seconds
  • 39 - Unknown - 9 Hours (Don't Sit Next to the Potty)
  • 42 - Unknown - Untitled
  • 45 - Unknown - And I Don't Know How I Got There
  • 49 - Ragan Fox - David Cartwright
  • 52 - Rachel Kann - A Word to the Whys
  • 55 - Unknown - Jump - Amy
  • 58 - Unknown - Beauty and the Beastiality: Uglier that Sin and Strippers
  • 61 - Unknown - Of Beauty
  • 64 - Walidah Imarisha - Bi-Racial Blues
  • 68 - Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - Lit (or To the Scientist Whom I Am Not Speaking To Anymore)

Other Images:

,

[Open in new window]
,

[Open in new window]

Home

P4 News

  • The P4 Blog

  • What Can I Find Here?
  • Featured Poem

The P4 Collection

  • Search the Collection
  • About The Collection
  • Collection Contributions
  • Scope and Guidelines
  • IP and Copyright
  • Important Notes

Who We Are

  • Our Purpose
  • Our Goals
  • Our Progress
  • Our Staff
  • Our Supporters
  • Our Partners

  • Partner with P4
  • Corporate Information
  • Contact P4

Slam Facts

  • What Is Slam?
  • Slam Scholarship
  • Slam's Origins
  • Slam Today
  • A Typical Slam
  • PSI-Sponsored Competitions
  • Your Local Slam
  • Be a Slam Poet

Donate

  • Facebook icon
  • Twitter icon
  • RSS icon
  • Contact icon

Site contents copyright The Performance Poetry Preservation Project, all rights reserved

Site design by mkwriting | NPS 2011 Photos throughout this site courtesy of Mary Cae Vignolini  | Contact P4 | Donate