WOKE IS BACK: POETRY SLAM EXTRAVAGANZA New York Performances

“WOKE IS BACK: POETRY SLAM EXTRAVAGANZA” lands at The Bell House as a live, onstage mash-up of spoken-word competition and concert energy, with Marley Gotterer among the featured performers and a Rock/Pop frame around the night. The format treats poetry as performance, not page work, and measures it in real time against audience response. No clear NYC premiere history is publicly established for this edition, but the event fits New York’s long tradition of slams as civic conversation. It’s a reminder that rhetoric, rhythm, and persona still function as nightlife.