About Me
PoetCD.com, Inc was founded in March 2000 by Soul Thomas Evans, Al Letson, Jr., and Dwayne Rayner in response to the ever growing popularity of Slam Poetry and Spoken Word around the planet. Now headquartered in NYC with an additional office in Florida for the last 6 plus years we've had some of the leading poets and spoken word artists around the world showcase their poetry products on our secure site to provide a place to sell copies of their CDs, Books, DVDs, and Poetry Clothing and also operate as a spoken word label to promote the vanguard and the importance of spoken word in all societies. We are excited to announce as of August 2006, that Mahogany Browne (mobrowne.com), Poet and Promoter has taken over as Director of Operations for PoetCD.com. PoetCD.com is also one of the few sites that have both video and audio of performance poets nationwide but also pays them in helping them distribute their products. Since 2000 we have released or helped financed the release of the following poetry products; nycSLAMS CD and Video, The Personal is Political CD, Perfect CD by Shane Koyczan, The Shane, Shappy, Sia Video, and Soul Book (2000), Bezerkeley Slam Video (2001 Unreleased), To Tell The Truth CD, Book and DVD, and PoetCD.Com Sampler CD (2002), soNORMul Book and CD and THE P5E SLAM FINALS CD (2003), The P5E SLAM FINALS CD (2004), A Beginning CD and The Two Years I Spent Saving Myself and Finding You Book, PoetCD.Com Sampler Volume II and III CDs in (2005) and a The What You Will Remember CD in (2006). The site also has the largest Internet Poetry Radio Station with over 600 tracks from today's leading spoken word artists playing continuously 24/7, a partnership with podcasts of poetry, listings and links to the personal websites to the leading poets, a slam calender of links to venues of poetry worldwide, and reviews of the best spoken word CDs, books, and DVDs as reviewed by industry leaders. So if you like spoken word and believe in the revolution it has embodied the last 15 years then link up with PoetCD.com as our goal is to continue to promote spoken word, have distribution in stores, integrate itself into every major arena of life and continue to see it save and inspire lives globally.
