Karen Finneyfrock has been on four national slam teams and toured internationally as a spoken word artist. In 2010, Karen visited Nepal as a Cultural Envoy through the US State Department. Her second book of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost, is available on Write Bloody press and her young adult novel, Celia, the Dark and Weird, is due from Viking Children’s Books, a division of Penguin in 2012.
Here's how the evening goes:
6:30 PM SIGN UPS BEGIN!
7:00 PM OPEN MIC BEGINS!
8:00 PM SLAM BEGINS!!
Admission is $8 ($5 w/ Student ID)
Can't make it out to the game? Check it out LIVE online here: bowerypoetrylive.com!
To help promote Urbana's LIMERICK SLAM on March 20th, Taylor is writing a limerick every week and performing ONLY limericks when he is in the room. He thinks this will encourage people to write their own limericks and join the slam. Not ALL limericks have to be original. The eventual winner will probably need between 20 and 30 to win, but who cares about winning? If you have four REALLY BAD LIMERICKS, you can go down in flames in the first round! For more information, talk to Taylor. Otherwise, get writing!
But Wait! There's More! Come Celebrate Our Slammaster's Birthday With Us!
Right after the Limerick Slam we're gonna have a celebration with Jeanann Verlee, be it both birthday and the loveliness she casts in our lives. Come out to honor this incredible woman and wind down before we continue on in to the final leg of our 2011-2012 slam season.
Here's how the evening goes:
6:30 PM SIGN UPS BEGIN!
7:00 PM OPEN MIC BEGINS!
8:00 PM LIMERICKS BEGINS!!
9:30 PM JEANANNERPALOOZA!
Admission is $8 ($5 w/ Student ID)
Can't make it out to the game? Check it out LIVE online here: bowerypoetrylive.com!
Holla' holla' holla' STEPHEN MEADS!
Stephen Meads grew up in the Bay Area. He now lives and writes and retail works in Portland, OR. He thinks you're swell.
Here's how the evening goes:
6:30 PM SIGN UPS BEGIN!
7:00 PM OPEN MIC BEGINS!
8:00 PM SLAM BEGINS!!
Admission is $8 ($5 w/ Student ID)
Can't make it out to the game? Check it out LIVE online here: bowerypoetrylive.com!
Coming Soon: URBANA's Limerick Slam!
To help promote Urbana's LIMERICK SLAM on March 20th, Taylor is writing a limerick every week and performing ONLY limericks when he is in the room. He thinks this will encourage people to write their own limericks and join the slam. Not ALL limericks have to be original. The eventual winner will probably need between 20 and 30 to win, but who cares about winning? If you have four REALLY BAD LIMERICKS, you can go down in flames in the first round! For more information, talk to Taylor. Otherwise, get writing!
But first... We're gonna get our minds blown by WILL EVANS!
William Evans is the founder and host of the Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam in Columbus. He has made six consecutive Columbus National Slam Teams and is a two time National Slam Finalist (IWPS 2008, NPS 2011). His first book of poetry, "In the Event You are Caught Behind Enemy Lines," was published by Penmanship Books in 2009.
We're also going to be having our 3rd SEMI-FINAL of the 2011-2012 season! Tomorrow you'll hear from these six semi-finalists:
Thuli
Michael Rosen
Catalina Ferro
Trina Emily Joyce
Shawn Randall
Ingamar
Come see these amazing 3rd Quarter champs battle it out for the 3rd slot in our GRAND SLAM FINALS!
Here's how the evening goes:
6:30 PM SIGN UPS BEGIN!
7:00 PM OPEN MIC BEGINS!
8:00 PM SLAM BEGINS!!
Admission is $10 ($7 w/ Student ID)
Can't make it out to the game? Check it out LIVE online here: bowerypoetrylive.com!
But wait! There's more, stick around after Urbana for:
Mighty Mike McGee & Friends: Live Album & DVD Recording Session
It has been a dream of Mike's to record a live album at his favorite poetry venue in New York. Since that space is mystical and only exists in Mike's heart, Mike called up the BPC instead and they said yes! Mike will perform a few of his older works and a bunch of things never before recorded. He has also asked many friends to come and be a part of the night's festivities. Guest performers include: Connor Dooley, Omar Holmon, Jeanann Verlee, Megan Falley, Ian Khadan, Travis Bilenski, Chad Anderson, Mahogany Browne and more. Come be part of an incredible evening immediately following the Urbana Poetry Slam.
Coming Soon: URBANA's Limerick Slam!
To help promote Urbana's LIMERICK SLAM on March 20th, Taylor is writing a limerick every week and performing ONLY limericks when he is in the room. He thinks this will encourage people to write their own limericks and join the slam. Not ALL limericks have to be original. The eventual winner will probably need between 20 and 30 to win, but who cares about winning? If you have four REALLY BAD LIMERICKS, you can go down in flames in the first round! For more information, talk to Taylor. Otherwise, get writing!
See he wipes his whole face ear to ear.
From cervix to clit
It's covered in spit.
And he calls the whole thing a Shapsmear!
