Nerds of Color + Classic Slam

April 22, 2023

Nerds of Color

Nerds of Color reporter Elijah Isaiah Johnson wrote about his experience attending the Classic Slam:

“There’s something pure about returning to the basics — the organic material — of spoken word. If the Golden Age of poetry began with Poe, Emerson, and Whitman, then the Renaissance begins here.”

Check out the full Nerds of Color article here!

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