Mark Eleveld Editor

Marc Kelly Smith is the creator and founder of the international slam poetry movement, for which he received the nickname Slampapi. Smith hosts the legendary Uptown Poetry Slam at Chicago’s Green Mill Jazz Lounge and has performed all over the world. Among other achievements, Smith teamed with Mark Eleveld to create The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip-Hop, and the Poetry of a New Generation and The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, two best-selling book/CD anthologies of spoken-word artists and performance poets. He currently guides and directs One Poetic Voice, an innovative translation via performance poetry troupe.

Mark Eleveld has been reviewing for Booklist since 2004. He is the editor of The Spoken Word Revolution and The Spoken Word Revolution Redux.