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1st Annual Rootabaga Slam |
Sandburg Days Festival 2007
In Galesburg, Illinois
Presents:
The 1st Annual Rootabaga Slam
Hosted by Slampapi Marc (So What!) Smith
Founder/Creator of the International Poetry Slam Movement
APRIL 27 8 PM $3 admission
At Cherry Street Tavern
57 S. Cherry Street
Galesburg, Illinois
Take the Main Street Exit from I-74. Go west -- 22 blocks -- until you get
one block before the city square. That's Cherry Street. Turn Left.
3 Rounds of Slam Competition by the HeartlandGÃÃs Finest Performance Poets
1st Prize $300
2nd prize $150
3rd prize $50
For info on entering the competition contact:
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Sponsored by Knox College & the Sandburg Days Festival |
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Woods to Perform 24-Hour Poetry Feature |
Nationally-know poet and President of Poetry Slam Inc. (PSi) Scott Woods is performing a one-man 24-hour poetry feature for the second time. Scheduled to usher in National Poetry Month (also known as April), the event will be held at Kafe Kerouac (2250 N. High St., Cols., OH). Woods will begin reading at 8 p.m., Sat., Mar. 31 and continue until Sun., Apr. 1 at 8 p.m.
"Last year no one had done it before," said Woods. "Now I can top myself by not repeating poems. Poetry is so vast and contains so many voices, you could do this reading every year for fifty years and not repeat a poem."
Woods added, "I've got stacks and stacks of books in my office as high as my hip in an attempt to make this year's feature a totally engaging experience."
The author and editor of over nine volumes of poetry (50 Mistakes Poets Make and High Desert Voices: The 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology most recently), Scott Woods has performed all over the country. He has been featured multiple times on National Public Radio and recently in Paste Magazine and Columbus Monthly.
He was inducted into the Thomson-Gale Contemporary Black Biography encyclopedia in 2006 and has published articles, reviews and other prose. He is currently President of Poetry Slam Inc., which oversees the annual National Poetry Slam and the Individual World Poetry Slam. Woods co-founded the Writers' Block Poetry Night, a Columbus-based organization that produces weekly open mic events and poetry slams, a monthly open mic dedicated to new poetry, and the Jazz Poetry Slam. He also writes a monthly poetry column -- "Poetry Is Doomed"-- for GotPoetry.com.
For more information about Scott Woods, see www.BlackAir.org. For more information about Writers' Block Poetry Night, see www.WritersBlockPoetry.com. Woods' column can be found at http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/topic=24.html.
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PSI Events Calendar Gets a Shake Up |
The Executive Council of Poetry Slam, Inc. recently re-examined its events calendar and made some rather major modifications as a result.
They determined that given that March is the official month to recognize women's history and general women's contributions to American life and culture, it was determined that an all women's event made a good deal of sense in March rather than in the Fall.
As a result, here is the PSI events calendar going forward:
2007
February 2007 = IWPS 2007 (Vancouver)
August 2007 = NPS 2007 (Austin)
October 2007 = WOWPS 2007 (Chicago)
2008
February 2008 = IWPS 2008 (Columbus)
August 2008 = NPS 2008 (Madison)
October 2008 = WOWPS 2008 (tbd)
Dec. 1, 2008 - Jan. 15, 2009 = Registration for WOWPS 2009
2009
March 2009 = WOWPS 2009 (tbd)
August 2009 = NPS 2009 (tbd)
September 1 GÃô October 15, 2009 = Registration for IWPS 2009
October 2009 = IWPS 2009 (tbd)
IWPS = Individual World Poetry Slam
WOWPS = World of Women Poetry Slam
NPS = National Poetry Slam |
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Slam Venues Page Gets Updates |
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The Slam Venues Page http://www.poetryslam.com/modules.php?name=Venues is functional again for all Certified and Registered Poetry Slams in the known universe. We will be updating the information on this page as information becomes available and we will be purging old slams that no longer exist or have failed to re-certify since 2006. If you are a SlamMaster of a certified or registered poetry slam, be sure to update your data by clicking on the form link inside the red box on the venues page.This is how you let people know where you are and when you meet. Make sure this information is current. We'll do our best on the admin end of things to keep the information flow active and lively. |
In an effort to bring more visibility to Poetry Slam, Inc. (PSI), National Poetry Slam (NPS), the Individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS) and all events surrounding the poetry slam movement, we have finally procured ourselves a myspace page!
We have started adding upcoming PSI events to the gig calendar and will have audio over the next few months added in.
Thank you to those who have already added us (and an extra thanks to those who have added us to your top friends list).
Spread the word! We want to be sure to take the world of performance poetry over...one networking system at a time (livejournal and facebook...WATCH OUT!).
Show your support by adding us as friends, leaving comments and/or putting us in your top friends list! Visit us at www.myspace.com/poetryslaminc.
See you in the webiverse. |
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