Bio:  For five years I wandered around Houston complaining that the city had no poetry slam.  One day my mother replied, "Well, why don't you start one?"  No, I replied.  Not me -- someone else should do it.  Someone else.  Anyone else. 

In 2000 I met a naked man named Dave Roy.  Dave gave me a sweaty hug and told me that he wanted poetry in his venue.  "C'mon, Doug.  Start a slam here.  We're ripe for it."  He coaxed me with another sticky hug.  The Houston Southmore Poetry Slam was born.

In 2002 I moved home to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.  I then helped to rekindle the ancient slam scene in Fayetteville.

National Teams:
Team Ozarks 2003

PSI Member Since: 2001

Other Organizations:
Southmore House
Ozark Poets and Writers Collective

Has Also Performed for the following types of audiences:
High School Students
College/University
Conventions/Private Parties

Recurring Themes in Your Work:
God loves a good story.  Especially when He is a character.  God created sin in order to make better stories.  Total sexuality is the natural state, and God gets a kick out of watching people fight their sinful urges.  As people became more uncomfortable in God's spotlight, they developed physics in order to morph the fairy tale deity into a more benign universe full of sexless laws and particles.  God thinks this is hilarious.

Describe your most profound slam-related experience:
When I was hosting the 2003 Corpus Christi Slam Finals, Tonie Roqué threw down a sex abuse poem that shook the hurricane-braced building.  She got an 8.8 and four tens.  I announced her perfect score of 30 and broke into tears on stage.  She fucking deserved a 30.