The Slam Muse Poeternas Estrad is today an important cultural institution in Stockholm. It was started by Erkki Lappalainen in an attempt to give performance poetry a platform in Sweden. The Poetry Slam is a new form for competition in poetry. Poetry is alive in most homes and people write more than ever. At the same time, very little poetry is ever published.
Performance poetry is an open and living meeting in our increasingly one-way cultural communication.
The Poetry Slam, poetry competition, is creating new opportunities for poetry and poets through direct meetings between poets and their audiences.