In this episode, poet Cin Salach takes us back to the mid-1980's when she walked into her first Poetry Slam and experienced a "spiritual chiropractic adjustment." How big an adjustment? She quit her job, has pursued poetry ever since, and Slam Poetry has never been quite the same.

Recorded by Joe Velez

Edited by Kevin O'Rourke

Produced by Emily Calvo

Directed by Hugh Schulze