Prologue -- Essay : Poems on the page, poems in the air ; Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins -- alchemy / Regie Gibson -- pt. 1. The beat remnants -- Introduction -- Poem for the root doctor of rock n roll ; Chicago / Quincy Troupe, Jr. -- Chicago / Kent Foreman -- Before I read this poem / George David Miller -- I am going to start living like a mystic ; Song ; Ocean of grass ; The burning of the midnight lamp / Edward Hirsch -- from eulogy of jimi christ / Regie Gibson -- To Dorothy ; To no one in particular / Marvin Bell -- Anodyne ; Blue Light Lounge sutra for the performance poets at Harold Park Hotel / Yusef Komunyakaa -- pt. 2. Hip hop -- Introduction -- funknawlegy / Regie Gibson -- Essay : Hip hop poetry ; Hip hop hollas / Jerry Quickley -- 48 hours after you left / DJ Renegade -- Rock'n'roll be a Black woman ; A mixed message / Tara Betts -- The hand has turned / Celena Glenn -- Hear O' Israel / Kevin Coval -- Amethyst rocks ; Essay : The future of language / Saul Williams -- pt. III. Performance art -- Introduction -- Essay : Performance art, performance poetry, the two sisters / Jean Howard -- worship ; Evolution / Cin Salach -- Television / Todd Alcott -- Dancing in your mother's skin ; Dollmaker / Jean Howard -- Hemingway afternoon ; Sirens at the mill / Lisa Buscani -- Essay : Performance art : blood, ice skates, and coyotes in the 20th century / Gregory Harms -- pt. IV. Competitive poetry/Taos -- Introduction -- Essay : Poetic pugilism ; So Edgar Allan Poe was in this car ; I hear there are poets here ; Patience / Terry Jacobus -- The fight game ; Sports teams / Peter Rabbit -- Welcome to the revolution ; Elephant song / Daniel S. Solis -- Essay : The Taos poetry circus / Anne MacNaughton -- Defending Walt Whitman ; Song of ourself ; Totem sonnets ; Marriage ; Inside Dachau / Sherman Alexie -- Untitled ; On drunkenness / Andrei Codrescu --
Essay : About slam poetry ; Cat on a coffin ; The father has faded : a gambling rogation ; Dusty blues ; Street musician ; Pull the next one up / Marc Smith
Essay : The poetry scene : no one way / Marvin Bell
prayer ; it's a teenage thang ; in the year i loved your mother / Regie Gibson
Essay : Once a "virgin, virgin" at the green mill / Richard Prince
Low down in the Get Me High Lounge / Michael Warr
The ice worm / Michael R. Brown
What I said to the man installing the hot tub / Brenda Moossy
XXX ; LXXIV / Michael Kadela
Belated valentine : a work in progress / Steve Marsh
Essay : About 2 poets / Thomas Lux
Careful what you ask for ; Cartalk : a love poem ; Essay : Degrees of difficulty / Jack McCarthy
The passion tree ; Dear America ; The abandoned factory of sense ; The foxhole manifesto / Jeffrey McDaniel
Essay : Around & in the scene ; DisClaimer ; Praise poem for slam : why slam causes pain and is a good thing ; Performance poem / Bob Holman
Peter meets the wolf ; Hansel tells Gretel of the witch / Regie Cabico
How to write a political poem ; Like Lilly like Wilson / Taylor Mali
And then she ; Building Nicole's mama ; My mother learns English ; A motherfucker too / Patricia Smith
how do we spell freedom, the weusi alphabeti method ; ...Naming and other Christian things / Roger Bonair-Agard
Beethoven / Shane Koyczan
Weekends ; Hillside ; Keepsake ; Lullaby ; Matinee ; Untitled / Viggo Mortensen
Essay : Crossing boundaries, crossing cultures : poetry, performance, and the new American revolution / Luis J. Rodriguez
Three a.m. ; On rain / Sarah Maehl
from Guilt / Adam Tapia-Grassi
First period / Kevin M. Derrig
Essay : Brave new voices / James Kass.
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