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People This is where the nation's top performance poets come to life. |
Otep Shamaya first came to public consciousness through her performance poetry. Now she's an internationally touring rock star fronting her own band. As he releases his new CD and prepares to travel the country, Sage Francis wants to grab hip-hop and poetry fans by their respective collars. More so than their peers on the printed page, America's Hispanic performance poets face public perceptions, expectations and stereotypes based on surnames and skin color, even before the first words leave their mouths.
Andrea Gibson is a two-time finalist at the Individual World Poetry Slam, cementing her place among America's elite slam poets. But at 31, she regards her achievements more as footnotes than as feats and believes she has yet to find a larger purpose.
Ed Mabrey was born to an alcoholic father he never knew and a mom who fought to keep her son afloat -- and out of gangs -- at the same time she floated in and out of bankruptcy. Mabrey enlisted in the U.S. Navy and became a father at 22 -- an unlikely route to winning the Individual World Poetry Slam. |
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