The Annual Bad Poetry Slam is coming up in January! This doggerel duel is often the most heated match-up all year, so you won’t want to miss it.

Important Notice! Because of the holidays, the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam will be held on January 8, the second Tuesday in January, mark your brand new calendars now!

Coming in February -  the Women’s Slam

We will be holding our first ever Women’s Slam, to choose our contestant for the upcoming Women of The World Poetry Slam, to be held in Detroit in March. Women from all over will descend on Detroit for four days of poetry.

From wow.poetryslam.com

The Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps) is an all-woman PSI event created by women for women poetry slam competitors. Poets who live their lives as women will be eligible to participate in WOWps. 18 poets will be invited as legacy poets who have been a part of the National Poetry Slam in the past (before 2000 NPS) to bring those voices back to the audiences.

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A big thanks to Blair for coming out. The crowd was great and Blair was fantastic as always. Apparently he will be moving to Paris next year, so if you missed him last nigh, make sure you check him out before he is gone!

 Next month is next year, and the first Tuesday is actually the first. Since you will certainly be a little tired from the holidays, we are moving the slam to January 8th, save the date!

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Tuesday night is the unstoppable Ann Arbor Poetry Slam at the Heidelberg. We will be featuring Blair. If you don’t know who Blair is, I’m sorry about your horrible and sheltered life. Please let me alleviate your pain by introducing you to the hottest poet in these parts. Don’t MISS IT!

Blair’s bio courtesy of BlairMusic.com:

D. BLAIR is a poet / singer-songwriter / performer and spoken word artist whose work, in the words of Metro Times “focuses on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair.” Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). He’s been named Best Solo Artist by Real Detroit Weekly Readers’ Poll and has been written about in periodicals around the country and overseas including Performing Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine and The Bay Area Times. His new one man show Burying the Evidence is new ground for Blair. The new and rewritten material for the theater piece is already receiving great reviews at previews in Detroit and Chicago and being written about in Detroit’s Between the Lines Newspaper and Northwest Airlines World Traveler Magazine.

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We had a great show on Tuesday. After many trials involving getting to the correct airport, being put on standby, and sitting at JFK airport all day. Jive arrived and made it to Ann Arbor unscathed.

His set was funny, heartfelt, crafted, and a lot of other adjectives that add up to awesome. If you were in Ann Arbor and you didn’t come to the Heidelberg, well, you owe yourself an apology for missing Jive Poetic. (Fun fact about Jive, he once took Susan Lucci to the Emmy Awards, true story).

The Slam was, interesting to say the least. I have never seen Mike Moriarty get such a low score on such a great poem. The final two were Logic and Callie Helen, a newcomer to the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam, and in the final round she won! Welcome to A2Slam Callie!

Thanks to the great crowd that came out. Don’t forget that next month our feature is Blair!

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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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