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The College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) is an annual Poetry Slam tournament put on by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) in which teams of four or five college students from different colleges and universities compete against each other. Its location changes every year. The competitive element is not the primary focus of the event; it is an opportunity for student poets to showcase their art and to develop their writing and presentation skills so as to take advantage of future opportunities in poetry. The event is inclusive, and all students are welcome. == History == The first CUPSI tournament was organized in 2001 by Robb Thibault. It was held at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Seven teams competed in the first tournament. The number of teams participating in CUPSI has grown since then with 53 teams competing in 2014. The increase in attendance coincides with the growth of slam poetry itself. Poets such as Individual World Poetry Slam champion Rudy Francisco have noted a general trend in the prevalence of poetry slam in everyday life. Several videos of poems performed at CUPSI having gone viral on the internet, including Lilly Myers's poem "Shrinking Women", which was viewed by over three million people within a year of its posting, and Patrick Roche's "21," which gained over three million views in its first two weeks after publishing. Poems from CUPSI have been featured on several popular political blogs and news sites, including The Huffington Post, Upworthy,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.upworthy.com/i-normally-wouldnt-tell-other-dudes-to-check-out-a-group-of-women-but-heres-an-exception )〕 and Jezebel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://jezebel.com/j-k-rowling-taken-to-task-for-fetishizing-asian-women-476396302 )〕 Many of these videos were filmed and published by Button Poetry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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