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Amy Weaver

About Me

amy has been a poet almost as long as she could spell the word... she loves the sound of laughter and works tirelessly to cultivate her own. She dreams in rainbow Technicolor, exercises her demons with a pen, and prefers the freedom of unlined paper. She has refused to grow up— knowing that it is an impossibility to be just one thing when she gets there. She lives for the promise of tomorrows and revels in retelling the stories of yesterday. she loves to perform, thinks groupies are neat, and hopes to someday be worth her weight in poem.She has been fortunate enough to SLAM with 4 teams in 5 years. 2001—helped team dallas win gold in seattle 2004—enjoyed the final stage a 2nd time as team dallas took the bronze in st. louis 2006—was honored to represent team dallas—pugsley’s library on the indie finals stage in Austin. she also co-coached this thoroughly enjoyable group of miscreants..for the last 3 years she has been mistress of all things poem at the Annual Deep Ellum Arts Festival. Always held the first weekend of april, she is the one to talk to for feature opps if you are in dallas on that particular weekend.amy loves to travel and has featured in venues coast-to-coast, from seattle to bar 13 and the nuyorican. she’s looking for any excuse to come see you and read poems. Feel free to contact her with feature and workshop opportunities.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/08/2005
Band Website: www.amyweaver.com
Band Members: MySpace Slideshow Upload Images MySpace Graphics MySpace Editor Photo CollageLink to: amy weaver
Influences: Poe, Plath, Neruda, Paz, Nikki Giavvani, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison...Clebo Rainey, Jason Carney, Marti McConnell, Patricia Smith, Rachel McKibbons, Ed mabrey...someone at almost any slam i have/will attend.you.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Open Mic at Lucky's Cafe

Show your love! Come out and support! We got a cool little write-up in the blog section (online) in the Dallas Voice. http://www.dallasvoice.com../instant-tea/2009/12/04/cr..eate -change-by-heading-to...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:22:00 GMT

30 poems in 30 days--National Poetry Month Challenge

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Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:02:00 GMT

DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE!!

**UPDATE!** Amy Weaver feature @The Poetry Grind Open Mic/Poetry Slam Thurs Mar 5th @8p!The Poetry Grind Open Mic & Poetry Slam. Please Please Please come!Thursday Mar. 5th&TONIGHT!!!**LATE BREAKING N...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:06:00 GMT

Southwest Shootout Baby

Southwest ShootoutLyrical Showdown Comes to TownJune 19th-21st    The 11th annual Southwest Shootout comes to downtown Dallas June 19th through the 21st.  Presented by Dallas Poetry Gri...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:04:00 GMT

YAY for College Press

chistena, you rock.this is her first published story.and i get to be in it.Banter hosts benefit for Vagina Monologues Christena Dowsett Issue date: 1/25/08 Section: ARTS Banter Eatertainment, located...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:16:00 GMT

Read My Lips

OK folks, so the next few weeks equals exciting times in Denton, ya'll. For those NOT in the know, Valentine's Day Weekend is your opportunity to catch North Texas' annual production of the Vagina Mon...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:43:00 GMT

i fell for it again...

since this was so much fun last time...Leave your name in my blog comments!Once you do that, this is what I'll do ...1. I'll respond with something random about you.2. I'll tell you which song or movi...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:41:00 GMT

bloodletting, a family affair

this is something new.something completely from a random placeof bitter remembrance.it's certainly different, but then so is the book i am designing it for.so, have at it. it's late and unedited, inpu...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:30:00 GMT

new little ditty

THE [he]ART of FORGETTING this is brand new. any and all advice welcome. it is actually neither parts one or three of the most recent post--they will be forthcoming soon. i promise.     It ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:15:00 GMT

Amy f-ing Steinberg

..> ROCK the VOTE Steinberg-style Personally, i think the most super holiday gift we can give our fantastic goddess of page, stage, song and muse this year would be just a few minutes of our tim...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:23:00 GMT