When you go to a poetry slam, you鈥檒l probably notice the majority of spoken word artists who hit the stage are men. But that鈥檚 not representative of the spoken word community at large. Starr, a slam poet, will represent the next year in the 2013 in Minneapolis. Host Frank Stasio talks to her about what it鈥檚 like to be a woman in the slam world.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
