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James Ray performs on the open mic after a long hiatus from the Seattle slam scene.
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seattlepoetryslam uploaded a new video
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Sarah Sapienza is a long-time talker. A hoot and a half, shes an east coast transplant with regional pride to spare, Sarahs work reflects her inte...
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Sarah Sapienza is a long-time talker. A hoot and a half, shes an east coast transplant with regional pride to spare, Sarahs work reflects her internal and external need for understanding and forgiveness, covering issues as wide ranging as hockey and the atom bomb.
Slamming for ten years, Sarah was a member of the 01 youth team out of Burlington, Vermont. She competed on both the adult and youth team at the same time in 02 (in Ann Arbor and Minneapolis respectively), and was the Burlington iWPS rep in 03. In her younger days, she hosted and coordinated slams across the state of Vermont, and has been teaching poetry workshops nationally and internationally for the past six years. She is currently teaching students with emotional and behavioral disabilities outside of Seattle. She regularly hosts Seattles longest running weekly show - the Seattle Poetry Slam.
She thinks that raincoat looks really good on you.
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seattlepoetryslam uploaded a new video
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Jack McCarthy is a working guy from the Boston area whos been writing poetry since the mid-60s. Hed been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-9...
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Jack McCarthy is a working guy from the Boston area whos been writing poetry since the mid-60s. Hed been averaging about a poem a year until 1992-93, when two things happened. First, his new wife, Carol, blackmailed him into attending a workshop with Galway Kinnell; then he brought his daughter Annie, for her birthday, to the open mike at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge, hoping shed get excited about poetry. Jack was the one who got hooked.
Since then hes brought out Grace Notes, two chapbooks (Actual Grace Notes and Too Old to Make Excuses (But Still Young Enough to Make Love)), a 60-minute cassette tape (Poems for Hannah), and a CD (Breaking Down Outside a Gas Station). A major book, Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, was released in 2003 by EM Press to rave reviews. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Spoken Word Revolution.
Jack was a member of the Boston team at the 1996 National Poetry Slam, and was an engaging minor character in the feature film "Slamnation," which documented those proceedings, and he was a member of the Worcester team at the 2000 National Poetry Slam, where he finished as the 10th ranked individual. The Boston Phoenix has named him Best Standup Poet, the Boston Poetry Awards Best Love Poet, and the Cambridge Poetry Awards Best Spoken Word and Best Humorous Poet . The Boston Globe says, In the poetry world, he's a rock star. www.standupoet.net www.seattlepoetryslam.org
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seattlepoetryslam uploaded a new video
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BUDDY WAKEFIELD is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBOs Def Poetry Jam, and most recently signed to An...
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BUDDY WAKEFIELD is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBOs Def Poetry Jam, and most recently signed to Ani DiFrancos Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear then successfully defended that [arbitrary] title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands against the national champions of seven European countries with works translated into Dutch.
In 2005 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship again and has gone on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in hundreds of venues internationally from The Fillmore in San Francisco and Scotlands Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and CBGBs. www.buddywakefield.com www.seattlepoetryslam.com
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seattlepoetryslam uploaded a new video
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Sarah Sapienza is a long-time talker. A hoot and a half, she's an east coast transplant with regional pride to spare, Sarah's work reflects her in...
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Sarah Sapienza is a long-time talker. A hoot and a half, she's an east coast transplant with regional pride to spare, Sarah's work reflects her internal and external need for understanding and forgiveness, covering issues as wide ranging as hockey and the atom bomb. Slamming for ten years, Sarah was a member of the '01 youth team out of Burlington, Vermont. She competed on both the adult and youth team at the same time in '02 (in Ann Arbor and Minneapolis respectively), and was the Burlington iWPS rep in '03. In her younger days, she hosted and coordinated slams across the state of Vermont, and has been teaching poetry workshops nationally and internationally for the past six years. She is currently teaching students with emotional and behavioral disabilities outside of Seattle. She regularly hosts Seattle's longest running weekly show - the Seattle Poetry Slam. She thinks that raincoat looks really good on you.
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