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Seattle Poetry Slam

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The Seattle Poetry Slam is a weekly poetry extravaganza that takes place at SPITFIRE, in the Belltown neighborhood of downtown Seattle, on 4th Ave., btwn Bell & Blanchard, every WEDNESDAY at 8:00pm.
OPEN MIC, Featured Poet and...THE SLAM - a competitive poetry reading where the focus is equally split between the content of the poem and how it is performed. The judging of this competition is done by randomly picked members of the audience, resulting in the democratization of poetry!!
Slam winners receive cash prizes and a chance to represent Seattle on the National and International level against the greatest performance poets in the world!!!WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME EARLY TO GET ON THE MIC!!! we only take 6 in the open mic and 8 in the slam! Spots get taken up quickly!
Seattle Poetry Slam is home venue to the 2007 Individual National Poetry Slam Champion Danny Sherrard; two time Individual National Poetry Slam Champion Anis Mojgani; two time World Poetry Slam Champ Buddy Wakefield; 2007 IWPS Finalist Ryler Dustin; and Tara Hardy - 4th ranked female Poetry Slammer in the country and founder of the Bent Writing Institute.

"Down to the Bone" DVD
now available on Amazon.com !!!

Click HERE to order your very own copy of the 2006 SPS Grand Slam DVD - Seattle Poetry Slam's biggest show of the year, featuring 2-time World Slam Champ Buddy Wakefield, 2-time Nat'l Slam Champ Anis Mojgani, spoken word and beat-box extraordinaire C.R. Avery and many more.

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Member Since: 16/12/2005
Band Website: http://www.SeattlePoetrySlam.org
Band Members: The Seattle spoken word and poetry community and all its friends...
Influences: Sonya Sanchez, Saul Williams, Taylor Mali, The Last Poets, Nikki Giovanni, Patricia Smith, The Suicide Kings, Buddy Wakefield, Tara Hardy, Paul harding, Gabrielle Bouliane, Roger Bonair-Agard, Shawn Vines, Piece, C.R. Avery, Mike McGee, Cass King, Paula Friedrich, Regie Gibson, Shane Koyczan, Jessica Care Moore, Ishle Yi Park, Selou Sundiata, Bob Redmond, Sarah Jones, Danny Hoch, Beau Sia, Blair, Celena Glenn, Rives, Michael Cirelli, Jack McCarthy, Sherman Alexie, Rachel Kann, and many, many more.
Sounds Like:Seattle National Slam Team

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Grand Slam recap

Check it - Last night, FOUR HUNDRED & EIGHTY poetry loving people stood in line for over an hour to squeeze tight into a sweaty venue called Chop Suey for the GRAND SLAM - the final even...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:48:00 GMT