Article: Globe critic wins Poetry Slam

CHICAGO -- Defending champion Patricia Smith, a poet and critic for the Boston Globe, won the second annual National Poetry Slam in Chicago with rousing odes that made "the audience a little uncomfortable."

A four-poet team from Chicago late Saturday won the team competition -- and the pair of gilded boxing gloves that went with the title. The poetry slam style of emotional, almost theatrical poetry readings originated in Chicago and has spread to other cities.

A crowd of more than 400 people attended the finals of the competition held at the Cabaret Metro nightclub on the city's North Side. A panel of five other poets judged the event.

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