• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Get Me High The Lounge is back and better than ever with a casual cool that's comfortably chic" | Barbara Vitello | 8/8/00
• Copley News | "Word Up" | Annie Alleman | 5/26/00
• USA Today | "For better or verse, poets embrace Net Both rhyme and reason are behind popularity of posting" | Karen S. Peterson | 2/10/00
• Chicago Tribune | "A digest of coming events" | Mary Agnes Lang | 9/26/99
• Chicago Tribune | "Motion in Poetry: Raucous and Ragtag, The National Slam Championships revels in the spoken word, and ends in a dramatic fourish" | Sid Smith | 8/16/99
• La Times : The Arts Cultural Desk | "Part Art, Part Hip-Hop And Part Circus; Slammers Shake Up an Interest in Poetry" | Bruce Weber | 8/16/99
• Chicago Tribune | "GRAND SLAM: As the National Poetry contest descends on Chicago, Marc Smith wonders if he has created a monster" | Rick Kogan | 8/8/99
• Chicago Tribune | "Poetry Slam more an epic now than a Haiku" | Achy Obejas | 8/6/99
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "All out slam That's what poets from around the globe will be doing at the National Poetry Slam Championship" | Barbara Vitello | 8/6/99
• The New York Times | "Part Art, Part Hip-Hop And Part Circus; Slammers Shake Up an Interest in Poetry" | Bruce Weber | 4/16/99
• Biblio | "Slam-Bang Poetry" | John K. Waters | 4/99 | Number 4/Volume 4
• The Carthage Press | "Slam Man" | Ron Graber | 2/20/99
• National Desk | "Of Rhymed Couplets, and Raunchy, Too" | William H. Honan | 12/16/98
• The Reader’s Guide Datebook |"All Hail the Great Slampapi" | 12/11/98
• The Sentinel-Record |"Slampapi’ conducts poetry workshop" | 11/6/98
• Literatur in Hamburg | 11/98
• Chicago Tribune | "`SLAMNATION,' `Slam' Probe Poetry Scene" | Teresa Wiltz | 10/23/98
• Boston Globe | "Heat, Humor of Poetry in 'Slamnation'" | Cate McQuaid |10/5/98
• Chicago Tribune | "For 45 teams of poets, event was a Grand Slam" | Hillel Italie | 9/14/98
• LA Times | "They're Poets and They Know It at the National Slam Face-Off" | HILLEL ITALIE | 9/13/98
• Timelines | "Slammin Words" | Hillel Italie | 9/8/98
• Chicago Tribune | "A hybrid art form heaps images on tp of imagery" | Teresa Wiltz | 6/15/98
• Chicago Sun-Times | "Slam!" | Celeste Busk | 4/30/98
• Chicago Tribune | "It's a slamjam, man'am, and that should be poetry, hear?" | James Warren | 4/26/98
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Blissful, bad or blown off, prom memory will go on" | Burt Constable | 4/23/98
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Lisle library brings muse to the masses with a poetry slam" | Kevin Barrett | 4/24/98
• Chicago Tribune | "Director Zemeckis in a class by himself at NIU" | Hevrdejs & Conklin INC | 4/19/98
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Writer's Week at Fremd to have big names as guests" | Diana Wallace | 4/17/98
• Chicago Tribune | "Hoots and Hollers rate Words' Worth" | S.R. Carroll | 4/15/98
• Kane County Chronicle | "Slam-dunk poetry" | Eric Schelkope | 4/3/98
• Chicago Tribune | "Bittersweet Reunion Recalls Reasons for Breakup" | Achy Obejas | 4/2/98
• The Viking Logue (Fremd High School) | "Writers Week 1998 expected to be better than ever" | Andrea Knoll | 2/6/98
• Well Versed | "Four teams mix it up at ECC poetry slam" | Dave Gathman | 4/2/98
• Chicago Tribune | "Rhyme Time" | Achy Obejas | 1/23/98
• Chicago Tribune | "The Uptown Poetry Slam still not skipping a beat" | Justin Hayford | 1/16/98
• Chicago Tribune | "In the war  between performers and scholars, forces are working behind enemy lines" | Rohan B. Preston | 9/8/97
• Chicago's New City | "The Lit 50" | Sam Jemielity | 5/28/97
• Hansestadt Hamburg | "Als Mark Smith die Lyrik entdeckte" | 12/3/97
• The Rock River Times | "Founder of SLAM poetry at Lundeen Gallery" | Frank Schier | 12/26/97
• The Viking Logue (Fremd High School) | "Writers Week captures talent and inspiration" | Ben Branham and Amy Walter | 4/25/97
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Word Power" | Larry Smith | 4/23/97
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "'Poetry slam' inventor loves to share his gift" | Lori Mieling | 4/17/97
• Des Plaines Journal | "Poetry at the Des Plaines Library" | Mark Dillman | 4/17/97
• Chicago's Daily Herald | "Slam on: Poets converge on Chicago for annual rendezvous of the masters" | Barbara Vitello | 4/4/97
• The Smithsonian Associate | "Slammin at the Smithsonian" | 3/97
• The Birthday Daily | "Marc Smith pays tribute to Carl Sandburg" | 1/6/97
• The Three Arts Club of Chicago | "The Three Arts Club's Third Annual All-Star Poetry Slam" | Abigail Crampton and Amy McClellan | Winter-Spring 1996 | Volume 8, Number 2
• Fayetteville Free Weekly | "Poetry Of and For the People/Chicago's Marc Smith, Father of the Poetry Slam OPWC Featured Reader for November" | Ginny Masullo | 11/21/96
• The Rock River Times Metro | "Marc Smith, the Crowdpleaser | Richard Vargas | 9/4/96
• Chicago Social | "The 10th Anniversary Poetry Slam" | 9/96
• The Rock River Times | "Father of Slam Poetry to read here" | Richard Vargas | 8/21/96
• Chicago Tribune | "What, Me Publish? | Achy Obejas | 6/14/96
• Chicago's New City | "The Lit 50" | Sam Jemielity | 5/13/96
• Chicago Sun-Times | "What, me publish?" | Achy Obejas | 5/14/96
• Chicago Sun-Times | "Slam!" | Celeste Busk | 4/30/96
• The Torch (The Roosevelt University Student Newspaper) | "Poetry slam inventor, Marc Smith brings artistic bliss to RU" | Arnette DeAngelis | 3/4/96
• Common Boundry | "Poetry: Giving Voice To What Matters" | 1/9