Mark Eleveld is a board member of the Midland Writers Society in Chicago and a copublisher at EM Press. He works for the Kankakee Daily Journal in Illinois as a freelance writer and book critic. From 1993 through 1996, Mark Eleveld worked as a publicist for poet Marc Smith. He is an English teacher at Joliet West High School and a philosophy professor at the University of St. Francis. Francis in the state of Illinois.
He currently resides in Joliet, Illinois. Few people can claim to have invented an entirely new art form on their own. One of these persons is Marc Smith. Competitive performance poetry has grown around the world since Marc founded the Poetry Slam in 1987.
Marc has motivated and inspired poets to reject the assumption that poetry is just for the high-minded by founding the Uptown Poetry Slam and numerous poetry groups and ensembles such as the Pong Unit One, the Bob Shakespeare Band, Neutral Turf's Chicago Poetry Festival, and the Poetic Theatre Project. Marc, the author of Crowdpleasers, has performed poetry in front of over a hundred thousand people during his sixteen-year weekly engagement at Chicago's Green Mill Bar. He is based in Chicago.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781402200373 |
| ISBN 10 | 1402200374 |
| Title | The Spoken Word Revolution |
| Author | Marc Kelly Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Year published | 2003-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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