Ekabhumi
Charles Ellik
|
|
 |
Rami Ekayanu: 'He Who Is The One Earth Plays'
Male
39 years old
Berkeley, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 12/15/2009
|
|
|
|
View My:
Pics
| Gifts
|
|
|
Ekabhumi's Interests
|
| General | Poetry, Hatha Yoga, Poetry Slams, Arts of all varieties, Arts Organizing, Good Food, Good Grog, Hiking, Backpacking, Surfing, Sailing, Reading, Home Improvement and Gardening. | | Music | www.bordersmedia.com/odp/ellik.asp | | Movies | I watch movies regularly with my Youth Yoga class. "Princess Mononoke" is awesome. "Kung Fu Panda" is fun. "Brother Bear" made me cry! I really ought to go see a grown-up movie once in a while... | | Television | AAGH! | | Books | Wow. So much. Currently reading "Dancing The Dream" and finding great wisdom there. "Vasistha's Yoga" is brilliant. Unearthed an old copy of "The Shipping News" and convinced my wife to read it. "The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting" by Milan Kundera. Love that book. "Frankenstein". I could go on and on... | | Heroes | Re-Thinking this one. How about this: anyone who chooses to return from the void to flirt with desire and serve all beings. |
| Groups:
|
BACORR, 575 haiku
View All Ekabhumi's Groups
|
|
|
Ekabhumi's Details
|
| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Long Beach, CA. | | Body type: | 5' 10" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Yoga Instructor | | Income: | Less than $30,000 |
|
|
![]() |
Ekabhumi I'm about to go and see Mike McGee at the Berkeley Slam! Posted at 2:42 AM Nov 26, 2009
view more
|
|
Ekabhumi's Latest Blog Entry
[Subscribe to this Blog]
|
NorCal Slam UPDATE – 2x Grand Slam Champ, Will Evans.
(view more)
|
NorCal Slam UPDATE -- World’s Biggest Indi Slam: IWPS 09.
(view more)
|
NorCal Slam UPDATE -- 2009 Individual World Poetry Slam Preview!
(view more)
|
Indi World Poetry Slam in Berkeley Oct. 8-10
(view more)
|
Report from West Coast Regionals!
(view more)
|
| [View All Blog Entries] |
|
Ekabhumi's Blurbs |
About me:
What am I really? Used to think I knew! I really enjoy breathing, drinking, eating, and spending time with Felicia, my lovely wife. My favorite disguise is a workaholic hippie.
Here's an 'official' poetry bio for those who need to know:
Ekabhumi embodies a rare combination of successful published poet, award-winning performer, respected organizer, and popular emcee. He is founder and co-slammaster of the Berkeley Poetry Slam, which has earned "Best of The East Bay" and many critics' choice awards since its inception in 1999. The Berkeley teams he coached have won numerous local, regional, and national titles. In 2009, he lead the Home City Committee’s bid to host the Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS 09) in Berkeley. More than just an organizer, he was the 2007 National Head-To-Head Haiku Champion. By day, he is a devoted husband and Youth Yoga instructor.
After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in '97, he took over the SF slam and touched off an explosion in the Northern California performance poetry scene, resulting in a First Place tie at the National Slam in '99 between SF and San Jose, with Oakland in third. There are now more than a dozen regular slams in Northern CA. He has featured across N. America and Britain at Universities, Clubs, Pubs, Schools, and livingrooms. He and his work has been featured in many interviews, anthologies and journals including Freedom To Speak (A National Slam Anthology), Berkeley Fiction Review, Pearl, Poetry Super Highway, Clean Sheets, and The Complete Idiot's Guide To Slam Poetry.
Honors & Awards:
--“Head-To-Head Haiku” National Champion 2007.
--Winner, West Coast Regional Slam/Big Sur: 99, 00, 02, 03, 07 (as Team Coach).
--Winner, Salmon Slam/Pacific NW Regionals: 98, 99, 00, 07 (as Team Coach).
--Winner, Battle Of The Bay: 00, 03, 07 (as Team Coach).
--Winner, NorCal “Win & In” Regionals: 06, 07 (as Team Coach).
--Winner, “Best Of The East Bay” (Best Open Mic) 2007 Diablo Magazine.
--"Tribe 25": one of the 25 most interesting people on Tribe.net 2005
--Winner, "Best of the East Bay" (Best Place To Hear Erotic Haiku) 2003- East Bay Express.
--Winner, National Collegiate Poetry Slam 2001 (as Team Coach).
--Winner, National Poetry Slam 99 (as Team Coach).
--Winner, "Best Open Mic" 1996- LA Weekly.
Performance Venues include: Masonic Auditorium (SF), Starry Plough (Berkeley), Nuyorican Poets Café (NYC), Bowery Poetry Club (NYC), Green Mill (Chicago), Michigan Theater (Ann Arbor), Paddington Arts (London), Cafe Du Sole (Vancouver, BC), Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center (Venice Beach), Yerba Buena Center For the Arts (SF), Ego’s (Austin, TX), and numerous universities, schools, bars, coffeehouses, and living rooms across the U.S.
Radio Appearances on KALX, KPFA (Pacifica), KUCI, BBC, Cool As Hell Theater (podcast). TV Appearances on several Public Access channels in CA.
Ekabhumi has shared the stage with nearly every notable Slam champion and quite a few underground legends, including: Patricia Smith, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Mike McGee, Buddy Wakefield, Beth Lisick, Sonya Renee, Anis Mojgani, Michelle Tea, Daphne Gottleib, Bucky Sinister, Staceyann Chin, The Suicide Kings, and Marc Smith, to name only a few. He has also shared the stage with numerous renowned “page” poets, including: Maya Angelou, Quincy Troupe, Gerald Locklin, Charles Webb, Michelle Tea, and Derrick Brown.
|
Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who can find poetry in chaos, adventure in a gutter, and beauty in a brick.
|
|
| Ekabhumi's Friend Space (Randomized) |
|
Ekabhumi has 398 friends.
|
|
|
|
|
![]()
|
Online Now!
..
