ANTI-SLAM

'Anti-Slam' is a movement was started more than a decade ago by Rev. Jen Miller in reaction to the Poetry Slam movement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at a venue called . The weekly event has spawned a movement of non-traditional performance among Lower East Side based performer who refer to themselves as Art Stars. At a poetry slam, performers are given a score of 1-10 by a panel of three judges, while at an anti-slam, all participants are given a perfect ten -- stand-up, fiction, commentary, poetry, rants, are all welcome.

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★ Off Off Broadway.com article on the Anti-Slam

★ Downeast Arts Center schedule

★ The Church of the Open Mic from The Morning News

★ East Side Arts from Downtown Express

★ Slamming Back from Village Voice

★ Jan 2002, Reverend Jen's Anti-Slam from the Village Voice