L i n k s
that you might find interesting
Youth Speaks   http://www.youthspeaks.org/

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe   http://www.nuyorican.org/

The Academy of American Poets   http://www.poets.org/

The Poetry Project at St. Marks   http://www.poetryproject.com/
Jack Kerouac, one of
the greatest spoken-word
pioneers, reading in Greenwich Village,
NYC, 1959.