In the summer of 1998, Roger Bonair-Agard, Stephen,Colman, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Alix Olson and,Lynne Procope took the championship belt at the,National Poetry Slam, the first team from the,world-famous Nuyorica Poets Cafe. These five poets,stand at the vanguard of the slam movement, with,verse that is passionate, tight, political and,lucid.