Press Photo MARC SMITH AMERICAN POET

LOCAL POET MARC SMITHMarc Kelly Smith is an American poet, and the creator and founder of the poetry slam movement, for which he received the nickname Slam Papi.Smith was born in 1949 and grew up on the southeast side of Chicago. He attended/graduated Charles P. Caldwell Elementary School and James H. Bowen High School. Smith spent most of his young life as a construction worker, but has written poetry since he was 19. He considers himself a Socialist.(WIKIPEDIA)
Photo measures 8 x 10 in.