Your Name: Joseph Harris

Your Nickname: L.O.G.I.C. , Stone,

Born (place and year): Saginaw, 77

Day Job: Residential Treatment Counselor at Camp Highfields for Troubled Youth

Formative Childhood Experience: moving to Maryland in 1983

Your Interests include: Poetry…duh, reading, politics, swimming, weight lifting, camping, running amuck & causing havok,

Last Book Read: Extinction- R.A. Salvatore’s War of the Spider Queen, Book 4

Ambition: History Professor/ Capitalistic Pig…..

Recent Accomplishment: representing A2 @ South Carolina

Prized Possessions: Mo Random Rambling (notebook o’ poetry), my ape collection, Zip Disk, picture album

When you started Slamming: July ‘03

One-sentence description of your Slam/Writing style: Written Rage, folded for easy storage…

Influences (poetic and otherwise): Black Ice, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, Huey Newton, Robert Fulghum, Tyler Durden, David Walker, W.E.B. DuBois, HZ FunCk, muMs,

Favorite Slam Poet: mighty Mike Mcgee

Favorite TV show: Dave Chapell, home movies, the oblongs, all Law & Order.

Favorite book: Art of War by Sun Tsu, Die Nigger Die by H. Rap Brown, Why Black People Tend to Shout by Ralph Wiley, Appeal to the Colored Citizen of the World by David Walker, Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois, Auto Biography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jorden, anything by David Eddings, all works written by R.A. Salvatore.