Michael Rudd is a
New Zealand performance poet
Performance poetry is a broad term, encompassing a variety of styles and genres. In brief, it is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe ...
. He won a number of
poetry slams during the time he spent living in Australia, and was a finalist in the Poetry Olympics.
Rudd also organises poetry events. He established numerous poetry reading and
open mic nights over the years, around
Auckland in NZ and in Melbourne and Sydney in Australia.
He has been the MC for the Going West Poetry Slam, which has been running annually in
West Auckland since 2004, and organised the first New Zealand National Poetry Slam.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
New Zealand poets
New Zealand male poets
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