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Top five slam poets who have visited Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo :: CA :: USA | 15 days ago
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I wish I could say I'm low-key obsessed with slam poetry, but really I'm a slam slut...And though most Mustangs don't know it, Cal Poly is actually a hot spot for spoken word poetry. Cal Poly often brings the best of the best to spit, so here are
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Fil-Am topbills 'Wanted: Funny Asian Male' show in New York
New York City :: NY :: USA | 28 days ago
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Wang Center houses the Office of Asian and Asian American Programs of Stony Brook University. Regie Cabico is a performer with tremendous expressive range, able to shift between wry humor, indignation, and poignant longing in only minutes on stage.
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'Def Poetry Jam' Star Javon Johnson Brings Laughs To The LAT Festival Of Books
Lāt :: Iran | 1 month ago
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Def Poetry Jam' Star Javon Johnson Brings Laughs To The LAT Festival Of Books Those lucky enough to walk past or be near the University of Southern California stage during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Saturday experienced not only music,
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Fire Creek brings back the Sundara slam
Sedona :: AZ :: USA | 1 month ago
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The soft, warm glow of the lights glistened off the faces of every poet as they took the stage, each glad to be back in that familiar space. The well-known stage was once part of Sundara, a clothing and coffee shop that was the home of the weekly
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Daemond Arrindell returns poetry to the people
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times Among his many roles, poet/slam artist Daemond Arrindell is slam master of the Seattle Poetry Slam, held weekly at Re-bar. Photos by Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times Poet/slam artist Daemond Arrindell, top center,
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Bob Holman: My poetic New York
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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March 16, 2013 Considered one of the most influential poets in New York City, Bob Holman has been around since the days when beats like William S...He coordinated readings at The Poetry Project in the East Village in the late 1970s, brought slam
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Poetry slam returns to Encinitas on Feb. 24
Encinitas :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Competitive poetry is alive and well in Encinitas, thanks to Full Moon Poets. The poetry collective has been offering a free poetry slam twice a year for the past 13 years...We get a cross section of types of poetry and ages, said Danny Salzhandler,
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Poetry slams do nothing to help the art form survive
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters...The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984. Named after a brutal wrestling move, the slam
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From Storms and Silence, Words Stir
Santa Cruz :: Bolivia | 4 months ago
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University prose is a craft riddled with guidelines, requirements and stylings of the associated variety. Those who master the rhetoric of academia do well to lecture, but poetry resides in materials that are often intangible to us. Twice a month
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Poetry Slam artiste performs at Hyderabad Literary Festival
Madrid :: Spain | 4 months ago
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Poetry Slam, a skill lesser known in India, where competitors write their own verse and perform it on stage for the audience to rate and rank them. What would it take to stand before a gallery and speak for five minutes?...But Theresa Hahl from
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