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General Discussion / Re: If You are a Slammaster and Don't see the Slammaster's forum... [UPDATED]
« on: July 31, 2012, 11:12:38 AM »
Thank you, Erik for updating & moving this thread.
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General Discussion / Re: NPS 2012 competing teams
« on: July 31, 2012, 08:08:55 AM »After practice Sunday night we discussed this issue as a team and have decided it was best to comply with PSI policy.
Thank you. Also, thank you for raising this up so that we can clarify our language better & make it consistent.
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General Discussion / Re: Slammaster Access Request Archive
« on: July 31, 2012, 08:06:34 AM »Slam Master and Slam Co-Master: Damien Flores y Aaron Cuffee (Cuffee)
Slam: ABQSlams
City: Albuquerque, NM
SQUEEEE!
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General Discussion / Re: NPS 2012 competing teams
« on: July 27, 2012, 11:21:53 AM »
Nice fine tooth illustration. As someone with a history of younger team members, I appreciate it.
Even with the inconsistency, though, so many of the events we have include bars, it's always something to mention, even to the entourage.Should be a fore-thought, not an afterthought in team formation.
Even with the inconsistency, though, so many of the events we have include bars, it's always something to mention, even to the entourage.Should be a fore-thought, not an afterthought in team formation.
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General Discussion / NPS 2012 Hotel Room Board
« on: July 24, 2012, 03:01:09 PM »
Anyone looking for a 4th roomie, last minute entourage, or volunteers looking for a split room,
I thought I'd kick off this thread, as I know someone looking for a room.
She's part of our entourage, is a newer poet (first NPS), GA certified massage therapist,
& sweet human.
Doesn't have to be the host hotel, but preferred.
Backchannel me if you are looking to fill your room.
I thought I'd kick off this thread, as I know someone looking for a room.
She's part of our entourage, is a newer poet (first NPS), GA certified massage therapist,
& sweet human.
Doesn't have to be the host hotel, but preferred.
Backchannel me if you are looking to fill your room.
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General Discussion / Re: NPS 2012 competing teams
« on: July 20, 2012, 09:54:16 AM »
Hi Hamilton,
I remember being a young & new slam master. These forums were difficult to navigate & I learned quickly to keep a folder of receipts from year to year. Even now, it's easy to lose track of this or that birthday of a poet or a slip of paper, that I'd often have to try to pay more than once, etc. Erik is working on a new & easier to navigate website, which is a pretty huge task considering the 20+ years of information to transfer & that sort of thing. I hear your frustration, I really do, as some of them have been my own over time. We are undergoing process improvement.
I have often offered myself up as a regional mentor & person to talk to about booking shows in the South East. I know Richmond has two slams. As a new slam master, whatever the past relationships have been, this might be a good chance to get on the good foot and strengthen the diplomacy between slams. I know our own slam community is strengthened by slam masters who get along.The South is strong with helpful slam masters who have been at this awhile~Kirk Hardesty--I barely know what I would have done without him & his patience. He's a great friend & will always be one of my mentors.Up the road from you in DC, Sarah Lawson is fantastic, warm, open & resourceful, also, slightly newer to the role, so she's be a good person to look up.Slam masters outside of my region have also been incredible resources and mentors to me as well. Jesse is a great tour guide. If you pop your head out, you'll see the whole net of us~be active in the forums & you'll feel more connected.
So, whatever communications went sideways this time around, that first time is always the roughest of all the rodeos.At slam master meeting, you will meet the lot of us & hear the opinions that match your own & be able to connect that way, too.Again, I'm sorry that you & your team are chomping at the bit on the wait list.There's a lot for new slam masters to take in~evidence, W&I, etc. Jesse is on point with the links, which is an opening to all the rest that can be a challenge to navigate.
Like that campaign, it gets better, especially as you get acclimated.
I look forward to meeting you at NPS.
I remember being a young & new slam master. These forums were difficult to navigate & I learned quickly to keep a folder of receipts from year to year. Even now, it's easy to lose track of this or that birthday of a poet or a slip of paper, that I'd often have to try to pay more than once, etc. Erik is working on a new & easier to navigate website, which is a pretty huge task considering the 20+ years of information to transfer & that sort of thing. I hear your frustration, I really do, as some of them have been my own over time. We are undergoing process improvement.
I have often offered myself up as a regional mentor & person to talk to about booking shows in the South East. I know Richmond has two slams. As a new slam master, whatever the past relationships have been, this might be a good chance to get on the good foot and strengthen the diplomacy between slams. I know our own slam community is strengthened by slam masters who get along.The South is strong with helpful slam masters who have been at this awhile~Kirk Hardesty--I barely know what I would have done without him & his patience. He's a great friend & will always be one of my mentors.Up the road from you in DC, Sarah Lawson is fantastic, warm, open & resourceful, also, slightly newer to the role, so she's be a good person to look up.Slam masters outside of my region have also been incredible resources and mentors to me as well. Jesse is a great tour guide. If you pop your head out, you'll see the whole net of us~be active in the forums & you'll feel more connected.
So, whatever communications went sideways this time around, that first time is always the roughest of all the rodeos.At slam master meeting, you will meet the lot of us & hear the opinions that match your own & be able to connect that way, too.Again, I'm sorry that you & your team are chomping at the bit on the wait list.There's a lot for new slam masters to take in~evidence, W&I, etc. Jesse is on point with the links, which is an opening to all the rest that can be a challenge to navigate.
Like that campaign, it gets better, especially as you get acclimated.
I look forward to meeting you at NPS.
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General Discussion / Re: Open Slots for Hosting Side/late Night Events at Nationals
« on: July 13, 2012, 09:20:45 AM »
I just sent you an email about hosting or Co-hosting Recovery & Remembrance.
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General Discussion / Re: Bed & Breakfast Condo Available for NPS 2012
« on: July 12, 2012, 09:23:01 AM »
That's really generous and awesome. Thank you for putting this offer out there.
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General Discussion / Re: Boycott Nationals??
« on: July 05, 2012, 09:14:26 AM »
Point of Information; I contacted SONG~ Southerners On New Ground about supporting LGBTQI businesses, work, etc. They've been busy with campaigns and other looming issues & my email was forwarded to the leaders of the Freedom Center, which we may want to check out, here's the first response:
The best connection SONG has in the Charlotte area is with the leaders of the Freedom Center for Social Justice. Bishop Tonyia Rawls and her wife, Gwen, are champions in the fight for social justice and they are dear to the SONG family and our work in NC. She and her team are included in this responded along with the SONG Team so we are all in the loop about your wonderful support of our work here. Feel free to touch base with any and/or all of us as you deem appropriate to proceed.
The best connection SONG has in the Charlotte area is with the leaders of the Freedom Center for Social Justice. Bishop Tonyia Rawls and her wife, Gwen, are champions in the fight for social justice and they are dear to the SONG family and our work in NC. She and her team are included in this responded along with the SONG Team so we are all in the loop about your wonderful support of our work here. Feel free to touch base with any and/or all of us as you deem appropriate to proceed.
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General Discussion / Re: National Poetry Slam 2013 will be in Boston/Cambridge
« on: June 21, 2012, 09:43:13 AM »
Thank you for posting the bid cycles 
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General Discussion / Re: NOW! Registration for NUPIC is now open. WHO'S GOING IN THE NUPIC FIRE-PIT????
« on: June 13, 2012, 09:15:57 AM »
BOOM!!!
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General Discussion / Re: National Poetry Slam 2013 will be in Boston/Cambridge
« on: June 13, 2012, 09:07:25 AM »
Regional rotation & grounding of NPS in one or a few select cities (& to a certain extent, IWPS & WOWPS) are both in heavy discussion among members & EC.
Even better routes to make funding to run events cheaper for poets is part of the discussion.
Some cities are more expensive than others (Boston & the NE in particular, even if you *are* east of the Mississippi). If you have any ideas in these areas, I suggest reading up on the discussions & making suggestions.
If you want to see events visit the SW & W more often, talk to people in the region, get bids together. Reach out & brain storm.
Yahfu is right~~ and if you include IWPS, that was in Berkeley a few years ago & WOWPS was just in Denver. Talk to both those scenes. Bringing events back is on their minds.
Even better routes to make funding to run events cheaper for poets is part of the discussion.
Some cities are more expensive than others (Boston & the NE in particular, even if you *are* east of the Mississippi). If you have any ideas in these areas, I suggest reading up on the discussions & making suggestions.
If you want to see events visit the SW & W more often, talk to people in the region, get bids together. Reach out & brain storm.
Yahfu is right~~ and if you include IWPS, that was in Berkeley a few years ago & WOWPS was just in Denver. Talk to both those scenes. Bringing events back is on their minds.
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General Discussion / Re: NUPIC 2012......GET READY for the underground
« on: June 05, 2012, 10:39:37 AM »
Awesome!
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General Discussion / Re: NPS 2012 competing teams
« on: June 05, 2012, 10:39:16 AM »Hey there, Phoenix should be listed as "Lawn Gnome Poetry Slam" - NOT Nitty Gritty Poetry Slam. I don't know who that is, but it ain't us.
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General Discussion / Re: NPS 2012 competing teams
« on: June 04, 2012, 11:04:16 AM »
I know we go through this almost every year, but my team address, as well as my own, is in ATLANTA. It's even in our name, ATLANTA ART AMOK.Please correct it. Thank you.