A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene [With CD]

by Susan McAllister

A Bigger Boat chronicles the Albuquerque Slam Poetry scene's growth and success at the 2005 National Poetry Slam competition, which it hosted and won. This collection of poems and personal memories explores Slam from the voices of the poets who began developing the Albuquerque scene in 1990 to poets who witnessed and celebrated the 2005 hometown victory.

Despite Slam's big city origins and arguments that smaller urban areas could not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826344836
• ISBN13: 9780826344830
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"