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General Discussion / Re: Help a poet out! (How to go about...)

« on: May 11, 2013, 02:36:43 AM »

A great place for networking is any PSi festival. The National Poetry Slam returns to the Boston area in August. There is also the Individual World Poetry Slam this fall in Spokane, WA. Both always need volunteers. Go to the home page of this site for details. Good luck.

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General Discussion / Re: Non PSI Slam information

« on: May 11, 2012, 09:29:13 AM »

2012 Rustbelt Poetry Slam
June 1&2; Columbus, OH
www.writingwrongspoetryslam.com for more info.

I think there is a thread for the Southwest Shootout.

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General Discussion / Re: 2012 Executive Council Members

« on: March 14, 2012, 01:40:28 AM »

Congrats to you all. It was a privilage to proxy for L.O.G.I.C. and an interesting process to be a part of.

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General Discussion / Re: Karen G., running for EC~here it goes!

« on: December 14, 2011, 04:38:13 PM »

...and your stance on performance enhancing drugs within our sport???





(Best of luck!)

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General Discussion / Re: Who's your team 2011 and Danny Strack's "scouting report"

« on: May 25, 2011, 01:24:26 AM »

Boy, I certainly shat in the dip, didn't I?

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General Discussion / Re: Who's your team 2011 and Danny Strack's "scouting report"

« on: May 20, 2011, 12:29:01 AM »

Sorry I jumped your shark. I fugured it was pseudo-public. My bad. Mea culpa.



Cheers and 10's y'all.

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General Discussion / Who's your team 2011 and Danny Strack's "scouting report"

« on: May 19, 2011, 02:34:28 PM »

Sometimes I miss things but I didn't see any post like this for this season. Check out http://dannystrack.tripod.com/pictures/promotion/NPS_Scouting_2011.pdf for the list that Danny Strack has put together.

Kool beings!

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General Discussion / Re: IWPS 2011

« on: May 19, 2011, 02:30:30 PM »

Actually, the last 2 years the original iWPS dates- Berkekely, which happened, and Philly, which was postponed and moved to Charlotte- didn't conflict with CFSW. I think it is just the luck of the callendar.

I met an Ozzie poet named Mark at '08 in Charlotte and, haven't the French- Team Paris- sent a rep reguarly too?

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General Discussion / Re: Just a thought - What if Bout draw for NPS Could Be Live and FANTASY POETRY

« on: May 16, 2011, 02:00:42 PM »

The 2007 draw was done by the patrons and performers of the Palatine Poetry Slam. Henry walked around, made us pull team names and did preleminary slotting. I have no idea how much the U-21's affected it that night, except that my team had 2 of them In the spirit of the slam, Samson gae up no details that we didn't find out when everybody else did.

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General Discussion / Re: can we change IWPS to Individual North American Poetry Slam championship?

« on: March 19, 2011, 09:47:55 AM »

Anybody calling themselves "the world's greatest poet" can do that- right or wrong- with or without winning a poetry slam, but the winner of iWPS is the world poetry slam champion.

There is a poet from Chicago known by Poetic Unsub- Greatest Poet Alive. Yes, there is.

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General Discussion / Re: Sad news out of Chicago

« on: March 18, 2011, 12:23:56 PM »

Didn't have a chance to reply so thanks, Rachel. There are a handful of us in Chicago that knew she had been battling the disease for a couple of years. Both open mics I host threw benefits for her recently and that was just as the news of the disease taking a turn for the worst had started to get out.

She was properly memorialized at Weeds bar on Monday night.

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General Discussion / Sad news out of Chicago

« on: March 08, 2011, 01:14:05 AM »

Maria McCray, a Chicago performance poetry legend and slam veteren passed Tuesday afternooon. For those who are not familiar with Maria, she was affectionately known as "Momma", performed in 9 editions of the National Poetry Slam representing Chicago/Green Mill and Chicago/Berwyn. She last competed as a storm poet in Seattle '01 and has a cameo in SlamNation. Maria was a United States Marine, serving during the Vietnam War, occasionally under fire. Maria was a singer, actor, activist, drinking buddy and mentor to many, including myself. Check out her work on www.e-poets.net. I will bring some things to share to WOW this week. I already miss her like breathing.

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Slam Selection Processes / Re: Mental Graffiti Selection 2011

« on: February 23, 2011, 02:14:42 PM »

5 of the top 6 are women. Cool!

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General Discussion / Re: Letter of Action From Gypsee Yo!

« on: February 20, 2011, 05:25:24 PM »

Done.

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General Discussion / Re: Pictures from WOWps 2010

« on: January 27, 2011, 02:05:52 PM »

Ditto... Most aren't great but there are a few treasures.