A topical directory of this website:
| Aesthetic liaisons | Who did what with whom, from the Chicago Poetry Ensemble through theNeoFuturists. | |||
| Convergence | The gathering of the people and conditions which gave rise to slam poetry. | |||
| Diaspora | The diffusion of the slam poetry phenomenon into the broader cultural environment. | |||
| Early rivals: Boston and Chicago | A scorecard of which cities' teams and individual poets won in what years. | |||
| The Chicago Poetry Ensemble | Specifically, who it was. | |||
| Ron Gillette | One of Marc Smith's earliest performance poetry influences. | |||
| Using the Internet | How Slam poets put the emerging internet to work as a literary, evangelical, and political tool. | |||
| The NeoFuturists | A theater whose aesthetic and players mixed frequently with Slam. | |||
| Sister Cities | Slams which sent poets abroad. | |||
| Slam versus the lit critics | The initial antagonism and now somewhat resolved situation between the Academyand Slam. | |||
| Where are they now? | A few closing words about the people who launched slam poetry in Chicago and beyond. | |||
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