Poetry Slam Cyprus, 2017

The 1st International Poetry Slam will host 6 poets slammers from Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and Austria, and 23 poets based in Cyprus.

Poetry Slam is a poetry competition, in which participants read their original work, dramatising the reading at the same time. Each participant / poet has a maximum of 3 minutes and presents in front of a 5member jury and the public.

Thirty-two years after the first Poetry Slam event in Chicago, Ideogramma undertakes to organise in Nicosia, on Monday and Tuesday 27 and 28 March, 2017, at ARTos Foundation, the first ever Poetry Slam in Cyprus, aiming to provoke and push poetry to the limits, seeking new forms of expression, always staying abreast of the contemporary international poetry trends.

These poetic performances were pioneered by the American poet Marc Smith, who organised a series of dramatic poetry readings at the ‘Get Me High Lounge’ in Chicago, in November 1984. Slowly this poetic phenomenon spread throughout the USA, from San Francisco to New York City…and all over the world.