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The National Poetry Slam (NPS) is the largest team performance poetry event in the world. Teams from all over North America, and a few from other places converge in a different city every summer for a week of poetry, revelry and competition.

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Archive Sites

• NPS 2011
• NPS 2010

The Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps) is an all-woman PSI event create by women for women poetry slam competitors. Poets who live their lives as women will be eligible to participate in WOWps. 16 poets will be invited as legacy poets who have been a part of the National Poetry Slam in the past (before 2000 NPS) to bring those voices back to the audiences.

Check out the Official Women of the World Poetry Slam Web Site for the latest information!

The Individual World Poetry Slam, or iWPS is a performance poetry tournament much like NPS, though designed for individual competition.  Poets from all over the world meet and compete in a multi-day performance poetry contest. iWPS got it’s start in April 2003, when Poetry Slam Inc. voted to start a new event: the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship. The idea was to pull poets from both certified poetry slam venues around the world and individual poets not affiliated with any certified venues (storm poets). These poets would compete to declare who was THE number one poet in the world.

This section holds news about the event.

For up to date details, please visit the Official Site.

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