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William Evans

Fired up, Ready to Go!

About Me

Since hitting his first open mic in August 2005, William H Evans III has risen as a successful poet in slam local to Columbus, OH and abroad. He has been on both of the Columbus Black Pearl Poetry National Teams ('06 & '07) in addition to being the 2006 Black Pearl Indy Grand Slam Champion,earning him a trip to the Individual World Poetry Slam in Vancouver, BC, where he finished 22nd out of 72 competing poets.
Most recently, William led the Black Pearl team to a 3rd place finish at the 2007 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam while finishing 4th overall as an individual. He has currently completed his sophmore poetry CD, “Measure” which is a follow-up to his debut release, "Living in the Hour Glass" from June '06. Will is one half of the two-man show with 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion Ed Mabrey entitled: ed. will. speak that will begin touring in the spring of '07.
"There is one universal truth- we all dream. Therefore, we all have wishes. The question is, can you turn your wish into passion? Lacking capacity (those who can't), these people sit in mute outrage awaiting disasters.""In the absence of natural disasters they try and create disasters. They hate the people whos lives, whether successful of not, are pursued with passion. First they idolize them, then they want to destroy them.""They want to appropriate the vitality of those people."
David Milch

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/27/2006
Band Website: spokenwilliam.com
Band Members: William H Evans III
Influences: Ed Mabrey, Umar Bin-Hassan, Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes, Andrea Gibson, Talaam Acey, Saul Williams, Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Patricia Smith, Sonja Sanchez, Dr King, Pat Tillman, Burak Obama, Morgan Freeman, Che Guevara, Ras Kass, Eldridge Cleaver, Shane Koyczan, Jason Carney, Edgar Allen Poe, Suicide Kings, Arthur Ashe, Huey P, Jim Brown, Michael Eric Dyson, Cornell West, Roger Bonair-Agard, Hafiz, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, Geoff Trenchard, Denzel Washington, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickenson, Anne Rice, Memnoch, Fred Hammond, Alixandra Kidd, Earvin Johnson
Sounds Like: Brutal Honest Conviction, Evolution, Humility

Measure CD available now; $12 (includes shipping)

Record Label: Black Pearl Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

She said that sunlight was for bastards unaware of their birthday

So&I've become THAT poet.  The poet who is writing more stuff than he's memorizing even though he's supposed to be prepping himself for slams where he prefers (and as far as group pieces, needs) ...
Posted by William Evans on Wed, 28 May 2008 04:16:00 PST

Run. Ran (reprise; previously posted on facebook)

Run. Ran (reprise)The problem with taking adviceFrom your someday daughter about not runningIs that she is somedayNot todayAnd doesn't actually existImaginations are made of abandoned one way roadsAnd...
Posted by William Evans on Tue, 27 May 2008 07:29:00 PST

Like the aging lines of a woman that cant stop smiling (Rustbelt Recap)

I'm still sleepwalking. Work is second to me aligning the color and shapes floating before my eyes that scream of sleep deprivation. But I'll be alright. Besides, these things are expec...
Posted by William Evans on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:42:00 PST

Shopping for Gloves (Poem)

(started at 10:42)Growth is a funnier subjectThan people give it credit forI am a broken corporate uniformTrying on softball glovesFor the company teamThat will feature the athletic prowessOf accounta...
Posted by William Evans on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:30:00 PST

The Big Sleep (poem)

There is a stillness That can't be duplicated amongst The vivid cinematography Of today's latest tragedy Or the estrogen infused drama With compelling characters you will never forgive When the credit...
Posted by William Evans on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:36:00 PST

To fall asleep with your arms wrapped around a land mine

So, color me pessimistic.  Ye of little faith.  Count me amongst the droves of poetry slam entusiasts.  I’ll admit it now...I wasn’t really feeling the Women of the World Po...
Posted by William Evans on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:19:00 PST

’Chopping the legs off of tables to make us feel tall’

So to save this from being an uncomfortable and cheesy, guy on guy lovefest, let me first say that J.W. Baz is an asshole.  With a cool goatee.  Now that, that is out of the way, I can&...
Posted by William Evans on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:00 PST

Boy the Earth Talks To

So yeah, I'm like Fired Up, Ready to Go...but more on that later. So I haven't spoke up in a while and I got a lot to cover, but lets get the bullshit out of the way: On 2/15/07 probably around 6pm, I...
Posted by William Evans on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:32:00 PST

Wants me to tell him something pretty

By now, you've probably heard about the high school "recruit" Kevin Hart that lied about being recruited and offered a scholarship by the University of California.  Quick recap for those that are...
Posted by William Evans on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:32:00 PST

I’m sorry God, I can’t hear you, can you speak directly into the microphone

Had an...interestingly good time in Cleveland this past weekend.  Ed and I were doing a show at Cleveland State last Friday, so of course we had Leah rollin and Dave used it as an excuse to ...
Posted by William Evans on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:49:00 PST