It was also the perfect poetry slam propaganda for starting and encouraging new poetry slam venues. One viewing of the movie could inspire a dozen new poems, and the seamless perfection of the group pieces found in the movie would forever change the number of and quality of the group work presented at the Nationals. showcased the best poetry and performances from the best poets across the country, and all within the anxiety-provoking context of the National Poetry Slam. In her book Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz calls the film "slam's second bible" (behind the Nuyorican anthology Aloud) and writes, For our Milton Keynes launch, the lovely Caroline Davies curated her own poem from the words that. Roger Ebert wrote a glowing review, calling the poetry slam "a pop culture phenomenon". Our Mums Poem curated by Caroline Davies. Though it would only enjoy a limited theatrical run, the film was nonetheless critically well received. Craig muMs Grant, an actor and slam poet who appeared in such plays as The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and his own self-authored A Sucker Emcee, died on March 24. SlamNation was broadcast on Cinemax/HBO and Starz/Encore, 2000–2002. A tribute to the poet, playwright, and actor from a friend who knew him since junior high. SlamNation premiered at the 1998 SXSW Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary at the 1998 Northampton Independent Film Festival. The film is one of the first films to document the art and competition of the poetry slam: a spoken word competition where judges, randomly chosen from the audience, score poets on a scale from one to ten and the poet with the highest score at the end of the evening wins. The film also features performances by Marc Smith, Patricia Smith, Taylor Mali, Alexandra Oliver and Bob Holman, among many others. It follows the 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team ( Saul Williams, Beau Sia, muMs da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, OR. The film follows the National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon. Rest well.SlamNation is a documentary film by director Paul Devlin. You one of the poets who made poetry something alive and tangible and electric for me, for so many of us. Beautiful Soul.” Poet Danez Smith wrote on Twitter, “Rest In Peace #MumsDaSchemer. “Oz” co-star Dean Winters wrote on Instagram, “Gutted…Beautiful Man. muMs told The New York Times, “Before hip-hop, I couldn’t speak.” A year after “A Sucker Emcee,” in 2015, muMs wrote the highly praised play “Paradox of the Urban Cliché” about a young couple’s trials and tribulations in Harlem.įellow artists voiced their sorrow and condolences on social media. Receiving rave reviews, “A Sucker Emcee” chronicles muMs’ life from his childhood in the Bronx and explores how hip-hop gave him a voice. He was planning to stage his autobiographical one-man show, “A Sucker Emcee,” this summer. Your voice matters: English novelist and poet Nikki Dudley on her quest to inspire mums to write These Mums Write. In addition to his poetry, he was also a playwright and stage actor. MuMs’ poetry tackled the somber topics of inequality, racism, the streets of New York, mass incarceration, drug abuse and more - all with a bit of humor. One of the raps performed by the Mau Maus on the “Bamboozled” soundtrack, “Ploylessness,” was written by muMs himself. He played a member of the fictional rap group, the Mau Maus, with other prominent rappers like Bronx native Mos Def. MuMs also starred in Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled,” an intense racial satire. muMs passionately and fiercely recited lines like: “I have died toothless and been reborn 144,000 times/I’ve got 144,000 rhymes for every brain cell/But I waste away in a cell.” The poetry that muMs performed as Poet was his own. On “Oz,” Poet performed slam poetry in the dining hall that had his fellow inmates laughing and crying. He went on to act in his best-known role as Arnold “Poet” Jackson on “Oz,” a groundbreaking prison drama that was the first one-hour dramatic television series by HBO. MuMs first entered the public eye in the documentary “SlamNation,” which followed the 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team that muMs was a part of. His cause of death is yet to be determined. On March 24, 2021, poet, rapper and actor Craig Grant, also known as “muMs da Schemer,” or most commonly as just “muMs,” unexpectedly died at age 52.
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