Community Arts Advocates, Inc. is a resource for street artists and
performers
The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC Radio: conversations with writers, actors, ex-presidents, dancers, scientists,
comedians, historians, grammarians, curators, filmmakers, and
do-it-yourself experts, such as John Updike, Doris Lessing, Bill Bradley, Mark Morris, and Francis Ford
Coppola, all of whom are return guests to Leonard Lopate on WNYC.

Spoken Word and Performance Poetry website - history of spoken word since the 90s, library of artists
Poetry Slam Inc. puts together poetry slams all over the world
Wikipedia's history of spoken word since the late 80s
Actor's Checklist website, providing definitions, history, agents, publishers, for performance poets