大象传媒

Daljit Nagra revisits the 大象传媒's poetry archive and chooses Bronzeville Beat featuring poets of Chicago.

Through poetry slams like Louder Than A Bomb, Chicago's powerful poetic tradition is being reforged by the young, bringing their diverse experience & new voices to light for the first time.

They are connected to Black Chicago's literary mother, Gwendolyn Brooks, both by their exposure to new ways of celebrating poetry at school & the community of competition & comradeship.

2020 was to mark the 20th anniversary of Louder than a Bomb, the world's biggest poetry slam but Covid 19 brought it to a halt. Maria Margaronis gathers up a community of poets online to liberate their words now on hold.

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in 2020.