The Slam Society started at Northwestern University in the Fall of 2009. We follow a "flashmob poetry" philosophy where poets perform wherever an audience can form.
Locations of Events include:
The Slam Society was created with the primary mission to let poets read to audiences. Fostering workshops, holding competitions, and sending a team to Nationals are secondary to giving poets on campus a place and an audience to perform. Our events incorporate any combination of an open mic, a Slam, and a trip to a poetry reading in the Chicagoland area.
Before there was writing, there was the human voice that created words... By becoming a partner with the poet, writing the poem yourself, you are given the tools to physicalize that understanding of the poem... A poet is never anyone but her or himself.- Bob Holman