Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hugo Ball performed the first performance poetry event on the 23rd of June 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. He wore a cardboard costume and recited the sound poem Gadji beri bimba to mark the birth of the genre.
Hedwig Gorski coined the term performance poetry in the early 1980s. The phrase was published in the Austin Chronicle newspaper in 1982 during her collaboration with composer D'Jalma Garnier III.
The Austin performance poetry scene developed in Austin, Texas, which is known as the Third Coast. Poets like raúlrsalinas, Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky, Joy Cole, and Hedwig Gorski created a robust literary environment recorded by the Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project.
Marc Smith founded the poetry slam in Chicago. This competitive live performance format has become a hotbed for performance poetry and allows unknown poets to share work in three to five minute increments.
The first expat-based performance poetry group Alchemy was established in Prague in 2002. The Prague-based poetics collective Object:Paradise was subsequently established in 2018 by writers Tyko Say and Jeff Milton.
The National Endowment for the Arts began accepting audio recordings for poetry fellowship applicants in the 21st century. This policy shift allows audio recordings with no printed versions of the poems to be used for publication verification.