Welcome to the Slam Free or Die Multi-Format Poetry Archive! This archive was created to foster a greater understanding of the relationship between text and performance in slam poetry. All poems featured in this archive are represented by both text and performance (either audio or video) versions.


Navigation Options

• Clicking Browse Items will take you to a complete list of all archived content.

• Clicking on Browse Collections will take you three collections categorized by format: text, audio, video. Each collection contains all content in the archive that correlates its respective category (i.e., the "text" collection contains all text versions of every poem in the archive)

• Each item in the archive is tagged with the following information: author name, poem name, year, and format. Clicking on any of these tags will create a comprehensive list of all items that share said tag (i.e., clicking on a "2013" tag will create a list of every item in the archive from the year 2013).

Enjoy exploring our site! For additional information about the archive, as well as contact information, please see our "About" page.

*Please note that individual authors retain all rights to their featured work.