Adam Falkner is a multiple-time member and coach of national poetry slam teams representing the youth community of Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan, and the infamous Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, which recently placed 5th in the nation at the 2008 National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin. Adam's work has appeared in numerous anthologies, magazines, academic literary journals and films, and his solo hip-hop LP (Control the Circle - 2005) has sold upwards of 5,000 copies. He and his students participated in the filming of an upcoming HBO documentary project focusing on Brave New Voices 2008, the National Youth Poetry Slam Festival in Washington, D.C. A collection of his latest poems and essays is forthcoming.
Adam is a National Associate for the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) and the recipient of a National Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award in higher education. He currently teachers 11th and 12th grade English and Creative Writing at PROGRESS High School in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and is pursuing a Masters degree in Secondary English Education. Adam is a graduate of The University of Michigan, where in addition to earning a Bachelors degree in Creative Writing, he crafted his own independent academic concentration in the areas of Race Relations and Whiteness studies - the first of its kind at the university. He keeps his belongings in Brooklyn.
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Mannnn, its been wayyyyyy too long. And i'm mostly on facebook now, you? Anyway, I been gettin back on the documentary like crazy, I miss all yall so much, its killin me. We had some great times. Your new stuff is fire, I remember comin into the dorms listening to some of your first tracks, I new you'd be rippin it. Me, you and Bamboo this fall, I gotta find a way to come to NY. Stay up fam
Mr. Adam Falkner How's it going brothaman? I'm not sure if you remember me, But i spit with you at Brook Yung's Show a month or two back, i said i was going to hit you up. Just found your myspace, hope everything is truly well. Are you having any shows soon?
Hey, remember when I had that job so I couldn't come into your classroom... and then you pretty much helped me get fired? Yeah... your time is now. Plus, sitting at home all day is getting redundant.
