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.