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November Slam – Jive Poetic!
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We have a fantastic feature for you in November. Jive Poetic is coming to us straight from New York. I have had the opportunity to see Jive perform on more than one NPS stage, and I have never been disappointed.
His Bio, courtesy of his website:
From his hometown in Buffalo, NY to London, England JIVE POETIC has ignited microphones with humorous wordplay and thought provoking verbal display. During a lengthy deliverance of revolutionary regression to teen suicide and sex, JIVE POETIC opts to teach the masses a lesson in life. His incentive? Watching the reaction of his listeners. (more…)
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October Slam featuring Uncle Drunk
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This coming Tuesday, October 2, the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam continues it’s 2nd decade on the scene. Because of a horrendous scheduling error by yours truly, Blair will not be featuring, (Don’t worry, he will be here in December I promise!). Filling his place will be a Kalamazoo poet named Uncle Drunk. He approached me not too long ago looking for this feature, and well, I couldn’t say no. Kalamazoo poets are always different.
Uncle Drunk’s bio:
Uncle Drunk grew up in a poor section of Palm Desert Ca. Writing his first piece of poetry at the tender age of 8 years old. From that point on his live was a downhill slide of literature and vice. Spending time around the street punks of Ventura/Santa Cruz Ca got him the perfect basis for his brand of street punk infused words and memories of childhood.
After getting clean and helping other punks in the Grand Rapids area get clean he attended his first Slam. He once again fell onto his rhythmic toboggan with a new dream.
In 2007 his dream was realized and he competed at National Poetry Slam in Austin, Tx. He was a member of the Kalamazoo Poets’ Anonymous team.
His first book “Life in the Doghouse: Memories of a Street Punk” has sold over 30 copies. All proceeds from his newly found ability to feature will go to fuel selling even more of these books so he can afford all of his techie supplies like Doritos and Jolt Cola. Mmmm Jolt Cola.
Of course, there will be an open mike, and the world famous poetry slam. See you there!
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NPS was Outstanding!
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The National Poetry Slam was last week and I have barely begun to recover from the great poetry. Ann Arbor made the Semi-finals for the first time since 2000! There are not enough exclamation points available for how cool that is.
Our intrepid poets faced off against some of the toughest teams around in their semi-final, including the home team Austin, and the team that would win the whole thing, Slam Charlotte.
Mike, Matt, Karyna, and Logic performed wonderfully the entire week. In a few weeks you will have the opportunity to see them yourself, when they feature at the Heidelberg on the first Tuesday in September. With any luck, I’ll be able to get one or more of them to write up their adventures in Austin for you.
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August Slam – and the National Poetry Slam
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Tuesday August 7 is the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam! There will be no feature, which leaves more time for you to read! As always we will have an open mic, and the world famous Poetry Slam. August is a standard qualifier.
Please wish our intrepid team of poets luck as they compete next week in the National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas!
Check out this sweet article in the Austin Chronicle, which features Ann Arbor’s own Karyna McGlynn
(OK she’s really from Austin, but she’s competing for us this year!), clicky clicky!
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Corbet Dean is coming this Tuesday!
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The Ann Arbor Poetry Slam is going down on Tuesday! Don’t miss the show.
The feature will be the incredible Corbet Dean. Check out his bio from CorbetDean.com
On the evening of May 23, 1994, three policemen were shot by a single gunman in Southwest Phoenix. One of the injured officers waited several years to process his thoughts and emotions about that critical incident.
In 2000, Corbet Dean shared his experience at the Spoken Word Festival in Tempe, AZ. After performing poetry about the confrontation, Corbet was praised: Gary Mex Glazner mentioned his work in a festival review for About.com. Later that year, The Mesa Tribune quoted the poem in an feature article on poetry in Arizona. Eventually, Corbet’s work appeared in Off the Cuffs, an unforgettable anthology published by Soft Skull Press.
Corbet is a powerful and moving performer. Don’t miss the chance to see this poet, who knows when I can get him back in!
