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General Discussion / 3rd Annual NUSPAs are around the corner - VOTE!!

« on: May 16, 2007, 10:28:26 AM »

The Third Annual N.U.S.P.A. Awards are Coming!!! VOTING starts 05/15/07!

Cast your vote at: http://www.greatpublishing.com/NUSPA/castyourvote.html!!

HURRY! VOTING ENDS MONDAY, MAY 21, 2007!!!

The National Underground Spokenword and Poetry Awards (NUSPA) is the celebration of Spoken Word Poetry at its finest. Spoken Word, like all oral tradition has been around since creation.

Several members of the slam family have been nominated in numerous categories. Please support these awards and vote for them.

This year's nominees for the 3rd Annual NUSPAS are:

Community Oriented Underground Poet (C.O.U.P.) Award Female - This award is for contributions to the spoken word community and community service

Carlene “Spirit” Roberts
Delrica Andrews
Lizz Straight
Monica Daye
Olu Butterfly

Community Oriented Underground Poet (C.O.U.P.) Award Male - This award is for contributions to the spoken word community and community service

Dasan Ahanu
Kymone Freeman
Lamont Carey
Skript
Tim Jackson

More Like Family Poetry Troupe Award

Black on Black Rhyme
Diversity Poet Educators
Lyric Ave
The 5th L

More Like Family Slam Team Award

Bull City Slam Team
DC/Baltimore Slam Team
Slam Charlotte Slam Team

Host of the Year Award

Ed Mabrey
Godchild the Omen
Komplex
Lorna Pickney
Monica Daye

Most Creative Cover Art Book

Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized edited by Michelle Sewell
Bits and Pieces of My Truth by Kaia Niambi Shivers
The Thin Line Between Sanity and Reality by Sir Reigns
Conversations About Her by Tim O.

Why didn’t I think of That - Writing Award

Convenience Store by Buddy Wakefield
Hello Dolly by Chris August
Market for N****s by Talaam Acey
No Choice of His Own by Odessa Maxwell
Scent of a Woman by Naima Jamaal

Poetry Book of the Year Award

Bits and Pieces of My Truth by Kaia Niambi Shivers
Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized edited by Michelle Sewell
Holy Poems II, Think a Little Bit Deeper
The Splinter Factory by Jeffrey McDaniel
Tears of God by Regena “Sonray” Reigns

Why Didn't I Think of That - Performance Award

Yeah Like That by Archie the Messenger
Read a Book by Bomani Armah
The Last Poet of the Night by ShadoKat
School Daze by Sir Reigns
Failin’ by Drew “Droopy” Anderson

Poetry Slam of the Year Award

Bowling Green
G_Ripp The Mic Three
Nuyourican Poetry Slam
Soul Cypher

Spoken word Performance Award Female

Kaia Niambi Shivers
Georgia Me
Love The Poet
Monica Daye
Sunni Patterson

Spoken word Performance Award Male

Amir Sulaiman
Beny Blaq
Dasan Ahanu
Messiah
Will Da Real 1

Spoken word Performance Award Group/Duo

Archie the Messenger and Lyricist
Ken Arkind and Panama Soweto
The 5th L
The Experience

Spoken word Performance Award Youth

Emoni Fela
Jazmin Fountain
Jaykayla Hart

Most Creative Cover Art CD

7 Days of Freedom by Monica Daye
For The Time Being by TriFlava
Underground Heavy by Talaam Acey
Unspoken: The Premix by DJ Tao

Spoken word Album of the Year Award

Underground Heavy – Talaam Acey
Porch Prophecies – Sunni Patterson
1st Amendment - Beny Blaq
7 Days of Freedom – Monica Daye

Congratulations to all of the nominees! Be sure to cast your votes starting 05/15/07 at www.greatpublishing.com and buy your tickets TODAY!!!

And if this is the first time you're hearing of the NUSPAs, shoot an email to greatpublishing.com so they can add your venue to places where they notify of this awards show! This is a national award and should include people from all over the country!

General Discussion / Oh NPS Historians...a little help please

« on: April 22, 2007, 07:48:38 AM »

Below is a list of every NPS we've held by location. I need to compile a list of names of the winning teams (along with their team members). If you know who was on the winning team (as well as who they were), please respond with that information. I have 2005 listed right, but I'm missing names for 2006 as well. Thanks a million!!

1990 San Francisco, CA
1991 Chicago, IL
1992 Boston, MA
1993 San Francisco, CA
1994 Asheville, NC
1995 Ann Arbor, MI
1996 Portland, OR
1997 Middletown, CT
1998 Austin, TX
1999 Chicago, IL
2000 Providence, RI
2001 Seattle, WA
2002 Minneapolis, MN
2003 Chicago, IL (Winners: LA, but which one?)
2004 St. Louis, MO (Winners: LA/which one or Hollywood?)
2005 Albuquerque, NM (Winners: Albuquerque| Members: Hakim Bellamy, Carlos Contreras, Cuffee, Esme Vaandragen, Kenn Rodriguez)
2006 Austin, TX (Winners: Denver| Members: Panama Soweto, Ken Arkind, Katie Wirsing, Isis - missing some folks here)

General Discussion / POETRY SLAMS - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

« on: March 25, 2007, 07:25:40 AM »

This is a new book by Arthur Chappell. He posted the link in the poetry_slam unofficial list-serv.

Here's the text:

POETRY SLAMS - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW by Arthur Chappell
http://www.lulu.com/content/758000 A complete study of poetry
performance slam competitions, their history, and how to compete in one.
Available from Lulu books.

There's a preview on the book at the link listed above. I wanted to let ya'll know and then see what ya'll thought of this.

General Discussion / Double Features: What's the big deal?

« on: February 25, 2007, 10:12:47 AM »

So I was talking to some friends about features in the area and we were talking specifically about: double features.

I remember talking to a poet a long time ago about their upcoming feature in the area and we had double booked. I wanted to know if they had wanted to reschedule or go with it and they were adamant about rescheduling. Something was mentioned about competing for sales and all of that.

When I first came into slam in 98/99, the Myth Slam (Nicki, Toby and Sally) ALWAYS did double features (one local and one national), each getting about 15 minutes to perform and each getting paid about $25 a piece. There was a harmony then. Now, it seems like a mortal sin for poets to feature with anyone.

I would like to believe that if you're a poet worth your salt, then double/triple/quadruple feature be damned...you'd be able to sell yourself regardless of who shares the stage with you. True, if you're featuring with someone (that wasn't originally touring with you), there is a possibility that your sales may go down. But what's the guarantee that the people that were listening to your feature were going to buy your product anyway?

Just wondering what your thoughts were on the issue.

General Discussion / Coming to iWPS? Quick list for you to know

« on: January 24, 2007, 10:42:48 AM »

http://www.individualworldpoetryslam.com

Traveling by air or by sea : Need Passport. There is no way around it. The law went into full effect yesterday (Jan 23).

Traveling by car/land: Need State Issued ID and your OFFICIAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE

Just reiterating the travel thing, because a lot of people are still asking about that.

Temperature: 32 degrees farenheit (or 0 - 10 degrees centigrade. I never remember this conversion crap...just saying) and wet. Dress warmly and bring an umbrella.

See you there!

General Discussion / Join PSI: Membership of Benefits

« on: October 29, 2006, 01:33:04 PM »

Listed below are the PSI membership benefits per which level. These are listed for your information and consideration should you decide to become a member of PSI (or upgrade your membership):

$20 NPS Basic

www.poetryslam.com
Bi-Annual e-newsletter
Discounts for Poetry Cross-Training Conference
Purchase Souvenir Bout Video of their choice[/list]

$35 Associate Member

$50 Booster

$100 Sustainer

$500 Patron

$1,000 Benefactor

All of the above plus an additional free all-access pass (total of two) to PSI Competition (NPS, iWPS, WOW Poetry Slam) and your name listed in the NPS Program same year as your donation.

General Discussion / DC Slam Finds a New Home!!!

« on: October 17, 2006, 12:11:47 PM »

So after much venue mayhem and many mishaps...

DC Slam's got a new home!!!!

So join us

EVERY SUNDAY
7:30pm - 10:00pm
$5 cover charge

DA’s Regional Food and Drink Washington
Our NEW Home!!!!!!
810 8th St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
1 block away from the
Gallery St/Chinatown Metro Station

Opening Show: Sunday, October 22, 2006
Feature Poet: Buddy Wakefield
Two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, 2004 and 2005

Every Week you get:

Open Mic (get your share on - 2 poems or 5 minutes)
Featured Poet (from as close as your backyard to as far as the other side of the world)
SLAM! (Competitive Performance Poetry! Cash prizes for top 3 winners)

WWW.DCSLAM.COM

General Discussion / 4 Luv of Poetry Seeks Female Voices

« on: September 29, 2006, 04:40:29 PM »

Howdy folks.

4 Luv of Poetry dot com is currently in the process of revamping its website.

One of the sections it plans to introduce in this rebirthing process is a running blog (or sorts) with 6 contributing writers.

We currently have solicited voices from 3 male writers and are now seeking their female counterparts.

So if you have already done any sort of Op-Ed writing, have a need to express yourself and can possibly commit to submitting an article one (maybe twice, depending on how popular the section becomes).

If you are interested, please send an email to webmaster at 4luvofpoetry dot com, enclose 1 writing sample (the writing sample is to not only get a feel of what you want to write about, but a feel of your writing style as well).

Thanks!

General Discussion / PSI Newsletter - Call for Articles and Ideas

« on: September 24, 2006, 10:40:07 AM »

Hey folks.

Back in July/August, the first issue of the 2nd volume of TEN: PSI Newsletter was released.

We are now looking for ideas, articles, photos, etc. for the 2nd issue. We have not yet set a scheduled release for the new issue, but we're gearing up to get this sucker started very shortly.

If you have any ideas, post them here or send your ideas to psi.news@gmail.com.

I'm thinking we should do at least one slammaster spotlight and no idea what else to do there. So get us some ideas so we can keep this thing going!

General Discussion / Standard English Rules & Grammar Online Source?

« on: August 30, 2006, 11:18:57 AM »

Greetings fellow wordsmiths,

I was wondering if there is anywhere online where I might find the equivalent of "The Little Brown Handbook"?

Anyone?

While I'd love to haul my copy around, I can't always do so (especially since I can't remember which box it is in at my mother's house).

Thanks!

General Discussion / Death Notice: Nikki Chipp (aka 3rd i)

« on: August 25, 2006, 04:57:51 PM »

Tishana Nikki Chipp (also known to some as 3rd i) took her life on between Sunday night/Monday sometime. She was living in Atlanta at the time. There may or may not have been an article in the paper (I've heard that there was, but have received no confirmation to the information).

I'm not sure how many of you would even know who she is. But Nikki volunteered as a runner at the 2003 National Poetry Slam while she was living in Chicago. She was a frequent poster on Okayplayer.com (home of The Roots) in both their Freestyle/Poetry Forum and their General Discussion forum. She was not what one would consider a slam poet, but she was a poet, nonetheless. She was a wonderful writer, human being, one of the nicest people you'd ever have the luxury of meeting and someone who left us too soon. She was young, vibrant, a beautiful spirit and she was my friend. And I didn't know she was in a bad way. And there's nothing I can do to help her now.

I'm not asking anyone to say a prayer for her (if you do, that is your perogative). I am however, imploring you to please reach out and speak up if you are battling depression or entertaining thoughts of suicide. It's not the answer. Seek the help that can save your life.

General Discussion / Dear fellow typesetters and comp geeks

« on: August 19, 2006, 08:51:17 AM »

I was wondering...

According to some sites, PCs can only handle 1,000 fonts at a time. Any more and it may slow down the performance of your computer. Is this true?

If it is, would it make sense to keep all fonts stored on a flash drive?

I would think yes, because it now makes your font portable to whatever computer you're working on, but then the question becomes...how does one access the flash drive for your fonts?

And can fonts be uninstalled once they've been installed?

Just wondering because I got a whole rack of new ones and I don't want to unnecessarily slow down my computer as I experiment with them.

Thanks.

General Discussion / PSI Newsletter - Call for ... EVERYTHING

« on: August 12, 2006, 01:30:29 PM »

Greetings, family. I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but as a member of PSI, you get a PSI newsletter that tells you different things going on within our slam world.

This is a free service that relies on its members for contributions. What that means is we need volunteers.

We're looking for articles, ideas on ways to improve the newsletter, suggestions for new articles/stories/angles etc.

So let us know!

Respond in this thread or email psi.news@gmail.com to let us know what you think we should do for future issues.

Thanks!

Delrica

General Discussion / Slam Poet Makes Cameo on MTV

« on: July 15, 2006, 07:41:08 AM »

So I'm sitting here this morning just letting the TV run while I do some work on my computer, and I'm watching this new show called, "Why Can't I Be You?".

This episode: a tomboy (EXTREME TOMBOY - named Stephanie) has solicited the assistance of the girlie girl (named Holly, I think)that works at her dentist's office to help her become more feminine. This particualar scene shows them at a diner eating and Holly requests that Stephanie allows her to put a little bit of lipgloss on her. Stephanie agrees to let her, so right at the table, she puts some lipgloss on her and then tells her to go up to this guy at the diner counter and ask him if he thinks her lip gloss looks cute.

Stephanie is NOT feeling this idea. She tells Holly that you don't just walk up to some random person to ask them that. To prove her point, Holly gets up and walks to the booth behind them. She sits down at this booth where two men are sitting and asks them if they think her new lip bloss is pretty and the African-American gentleman at the table tells her yes.

So I'm looking at this whole exchange and thinking, "hey...I KNOW that guy!" So I immediately start rolling through my brain who this dude could possibly be, and it hits me that it's ANDREW TYREE from team Nuyorican 2005.

So be it unintentional or no, a slam poet recently made a cameo on MTV (uneventful ending to the story, I know...but hey maybe he will (or some other slam poet) have an opportunity to be seen somewhere else on National TV).

General Discussion / New SouthWest Air Fares Sale

« on: June 23, 2006, 07:52:16 AM »

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* Purchase June 23 through June 26, 2006, midnight Pacific Time.
* Travel July 10 through August 31, 2006.
* Available on published service only. Some flights operated by ATA Airlines.
* Fares do not include federal excise tax of up to $3.30 for each flight segment. A flight segment is defined as a takeoff and a landing.
* Fares do not include airport-assessed passenger facility charges (PFC) of up to $9 and government-imposed September 11th Security Fee of up to $5 one-way.
* Fares are one-way.
* Fares may be combined with other combinable fares.
* Fares are not combinable with Senior Fares.
* When combining fares, all rules and restrictions apply.
* Fares are nonrefundable but may be applied toward future travel on Southwest Airlines.
* Seats are limited and won't be available on some flights that operate during very busy travel times and holiday periods.
* Any change to this reservation (flights, dates, cities, and/or names of passengers) may result in a fare increase. Standby travel requires an upgrade to the full unrestricted fare.

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