Hip-Hop/R&B
Def Poetry Reunion
About This Event
Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam, which brought spoken word into hip-hop and R&B conversations on New York stages and television, returns to NJPAC as a reunion. The event presents a rotating lineup of poets and emphasizes voice, rhythm, and lived testimony, treating audience proximity and club-derived emceeing as central elements rather than theatrical production.
About the Artist
Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam
Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam is a performance platform that brought spoken word into the Hip-Hop and R&B conversation, first on New York stages and later to television. Built around rotating lineups, it foregrounds poets as working performers, shaped by club culture, emceeing, and literary craft.