• Times Union | "Poetry slam pits rhyme vs. reason" | Paul Grondahl | 10/30/95
• Chicago's Metroland | "Say Anything" | Jo Page | 10/26/95
• Chicago Sun-Times | "Slam at Pretenders" | Lynn Voedisch | 10/1/95
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Poetry slams are no place for wimps - or long prose, for that matter" | Rackl & Hart | 10/20/95
• Chicago Tribune | "Meter Readers" | Jeff Lyon | 9/17/95
• City Life | "From Page to Stage" | Mark Lawton | 8/31/95
• Chicago's Free Press | "Poetry contest will let poets be heard - and judged" | Tina Croley | 8/9/95
• Chicago Reader | "Lexis Praxis VI: Chicago Writers Taken to Stage" | Jack Helbig | 8/4/95 | Volume 24, Number 44
• Chicago's New City | "The Lit 50" | Marc Spiegler | 6/7/95
• This Month ON STAGE | "Pong Jam" | Mary Shen Barnidge | 5/95
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Jazzzzzy" | Barbara Vitello | 4/95
• Living | "Poetry in Motion" | Dan Pearson | 4/14/95
• The Torch (Valparaiso Univeristy) | "Jazz Festival features poetry slam, high school bands, alumni band for anniversary" | Stephanie Catlin | 4/13/95 | Volume, Issue 24
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Combining poetry and song into pong" | Barbara Vitello | 3/3/95
• The Viking Logue (Fremd High School) | "Wordsmiths to share their craft with students" | Jennifer D'Alexander | 3/1/95
• The Viking Logue (Fremd High School) | "Not the usual Burt tome, just an ode to 'the poem" | Burt Constable | 2/28/95
• Chicago Tribune | "Step up to the mike: Wannabe Performers find a Stage - and an Outlet" | Jeff Favre | 2/17/95
• The Three Arts Club of Chicago | "The Art of the Word Second to None" | 12/94 | Volume 7 Num 2 
• Art & Performance Magazine (Northwester Univeristy) | "Slam ... let poets be poets" | Jacob Mayfield | 11/18/94
• The Harbinger (William Rainey Harper College) | "Poetry slamming on campus again" | Kenneth Dillard | 10/7/94 | Volume XXVII Number 4
• Chicago Daily Southtown | "Poetry in motion" | 1/28/94
• Bolingbrook Sun | "Poetry slam at Lewis U." | 1/26/94
• Mace & Crown | "Slam!" | Lessa Sherman | 12/193 | Volume 32, Number 12 
• Chicago's Daily Southtown | "Poetry Power" | 12/26/93
• The Virgina-Pilot and The Ledger-Star | "Poet Smith makes you listen to the words" | Rickey Wright | 12/18/93
• Roanoke Times & World-News | "In praise of poetry slams" | Mark Morrison | 11/16/93
• The Virgina-Pilot and The Ledger-Star | "Marc Smtih will discuss poetry slams" | Rickey Wright | 12/14/93
• Illinois's Wauconda Lead | "Slam is back" | Pat Weiss | 10/1/93 | Volume 105, Number 40
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Poetry Slam seeks well-versed writers" | Marcie Dosemagen | 5/14/93
• Lakeland Newspaper | "Faces of poets" | Heather McDonald | 4/16/93
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Poetry slam clicks at Lakeside Inn" | Sandra Del Re | 3/28/93
• Lakeland Newspaper | "Poetry slams become a permanent fixture in town | Heather McDonald | 3/26/93
• Lake Zurich Courier | "Iambic pentameter meets barroom critics" | Joanne Leis | 3/18/93
• Lakeland Newspaper | "Poetry slams into town" | 3/5/93
• Chicago Tribune | "Good ode days - Wham, bam, poetry slam. Yes, this is Wauconda" | David Divlerman | 3/5/93
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Poets to slam their stuff at Wauconda area library" | Sandra Del Re | 3/3/93
• USA Today | "The beatniks of the '90s: Poetry slammers'" | 2/19/93
• The Flyer (Lewis University) | "Smith "Slams" Lewis Mark Eleveld | 2/10/93 | Volume 18, Number 12
• Chicago Tribune | "Beat goes on" | Hugh Hart | 1/25/93
• USA Today | "The new rage: Poetry slams" | Craig Wilson | 1/19/93
• Chicago's Pioneer Press | "Poems made by fools like me" | Martin A. Bartels | 1/93
• Chicago's Pioneer Press | "Poetry slam" | 1/93
• Chicago Tribune | "Music and Fighting Word Chicago's High Priestess of Dub Poetry 'Speaks The Truth'" | Rohan B. Preston | 10/26/92
• In These Times | "Marc Smith: people's poet" | Maggie Garb | 9/92
• Smithsonian | "'Please, audience, do not applaud a mediocre poem'" | Richard Conniff | 9/29/92
• Chicago Sun-Times | "Poetry: Marc Smith slices, dices" | P.J. Bednarski | 5/25/92
• Chicago Sun-Times | "Poet taps into sentiment on Old Comiskey" | Dave Hoekstra | 3/27/92
• Boston Globe | "Poetry Pops Out of its Cage Reading, Writing and Razzmatazz: '90s Poets Thrive on Open Mikes, Competition | Patricia Smith | 3/1/92
• The New York Times | "The Word's Turn: Urban Poets Re-emerge" | Eve M. Kahn | 1/31/92
• Berwyn Life | "Poetry Slam draws writers to Berwyn" | Karen Dalton | 1/24/92
• Chicago Tribune | "West Side poets forgo lilied language, find audience for bar banter" | Jessica Seigel" | 1/9/92
• Chicago Tribune | "Rhyme and Reason" | Sunday Magazine | 12/1/91 
• Poetry Flash | "Blow by Blow : The National Poetry Slam 1991" | Michael Warr | 11/91
• Chicago Sun-Times | "Slam poet gets the boot again" | 10/8/91
• Chicago Sun-Times | "Wordsmiths will duke it out at poetry slam | Ernest Tucker | 10/4/91
• Chicago's Wednesday Journal | "Chicago Slam competition is pure poetry" | Robin Zimmerman | 9/25/91
• Chicago Tribune | "Poetry, Straight Up Sounds Great? Less Filling? Performance Poets are Reviving Interest in an Art Form: Part 1" | Connie Lauerman | 9/20/91
• Chicago Tribune | "Poetry, Straight Up Sounds Great? Less Filling? Performance Poets are Reviving Interest in an Art Form: Part 2" | Connie Lauerman | 9/20/91
• Chicago Tribune | "Poetry, Straight Up Sounds Great? Less Filling? Performance Poets are Reviving Interest in an Art Form: Part 3" | Connie Lauerman | 9/20/91
• In These Times - Cover Story | 5/12/91 | Volume 15, Number 26
• Poetry Ex | "Poetry on Stage" | 4/91 | #62
• Chicago's Southtown Economist | "Battle of the Bards: Gladiators wrestle with rhyme at West Side Poetry Slam" | Scott Hersey | 3/19/91
• Chicago Tribune | "Lines Form for ....Poetry" | Charlene Baumbich | 1/27/91
• Chicago Tribune | "A Spicier Mix for the Poetry Scene Hispanic Bards take their Works to the Pubs and Theaters to Tell of Bicultural Struggles" | Constanza Montana | 1/9/91