Suss: another literary journal

Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York Poetry Slam

by Ian Khadan

October 2009

A stel­lar book by fel­low Suss author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz that fits into the con­fines of its pages a major move­ment in the mod­ern era of poetry that will likely be stud­ied by acad­e­mia in many years to come along­side the likes of the Black Arts move­ment and the Beatnik era. Aptowicz com­piles a lav­ish win­dow into which many unfa­mil­iar with the bur­geon­ing slam poetry scene can appre­ci­ate the his­tory and strug­gles of now accom­plished poets and nov­el­ists that have made their rise in the lit­er­ary sphere through the art of per­for­mance poetry. A nec­es­sary read for the con­tem­po­rary poet.