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Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s National Poetry Slam Champions

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Imprint: CreateSpace (Aug 04, 2003)
Poetry, Paperback, 186 pages
Publisher: On-Demand Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781887128483

    Description of Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s National Poetry Slam Champions

    In the summer of 1998 they took the belt at the National Poetry Slam, the first team from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. These five New York poets stand at the vanguard of the slam movement, with verse that is passionate, tight, political and lucid.

    Roger Bonair-Agard, Stephen Colman, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Alix Olson and Lynne Procope

    About Roger Bonair-Agard, Stephen Colman, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Alix Olson and Lynne Procope

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