SLAM STAFF:
PROVIDENCE POETRY SLAM STAFF:
Laura Murphy
Eamon Mahoney
Omar Reyes
Alan Hague
Dawn Beagan
Meg Fogarty
Shane Jones
Kit Wallach
Corrina Bain
Jared Paul
ATTENTION TO THOSE LOOKING TO FEATURE: ATTENTION TO THOSE LOOKING TO FEATURE:
PROVIDENCE SLAM ONLY DOES ONE OR TWO FEATURES A MONTH AND WE BOOK BY INVITATION OR BY A STAFF VOTE ONLY. WE DO OFTEN AFFORD TRAVELING POETS A SHOT AT OUR AUDIENCE VIA A TWO POEM SPOTLIGHT: SUBMIT YOUR REQUEST TO SPOT LIGHT TO OUR MYSPACE INBOX. THANKS. ~PROV SLAM STAFF.
Influences
Bill MacMillan, John Powers, Sage Francis, Patricia Smith, Bernard Dolan, Roger Bonair Agard, Celena Glenn, Alixa Garcia, Umberto Crenca, Laura Moran, Sou MacMillan, Jack McCarthy, Rachel McKibbens, George McKibbens, Mary McConnell, Lynne Procope, Kyra Wolfe, Elizabeth Thomas, Michael Cirelli
Providence Slam is one of the oldest and most respected national Poetry Slam venues. Known for bringing quality, consistent work to regional/national poetry events and for a strong community built around it's home venue of AS220, The Providence Slam Team won the National Poetry Slam in 1996, hosted Nationals in 2000, and has advanced passed the qualifying round at The National Poetry Slam 8 times in the passed 11 years.
It's the objective of this venue to maintain and provide a space where individuals, whether they consider themselves artists or not, can come to share and learn from one another. Writiers, singers, musicians, carpenters, doctors, janitors, lawyers, and waitresses; we are not defined by our job titles. Everyone is welcome at the Providence Slam.
Bring flyers for community events and actions. We will post and announce them. Bring your songs, poems, and rants. The stage is open to you.
Bring your ears, anger, smiles, and tears. You will hear some of the consistently highest quality spoken word in the country.
Our venue is AS220. We are blessed to have an art/community action fortress as our home court. They provide for and protect our reading without trying to profit or change us and we are lucky unspeakably lucky to be here. Check them out.
Our reading is at AS220 EVERY THURSDAY!!
115 Empire St.
Providence, RI 02909
Thanks for adding me! Your poetry is deep:) I'm really digging it,you should put more on there :) If you get a chance I would really appreciate it if you could check out the poems on my blog and leave comment.
RHODE ISLANDERS TO PROTEST 5 YEARS OF WAR AND OCCUPATION
On March 19, Rhode Islanders will mark the end of the fifth year of the war on Iraq with a march through downtown Providence followed by a rally on the mall side of the State House. At 4:00 pm, participants will gather at Burnside Park , where the march will form and move toward the headquarters of weapons manufacturer, Textron. The march will also pass two military recruiting offices.
These actions are sponsored by the RI Spring Mobilization Committee, a coalition of community, faith-based, and political groups. Members of the Committee are willing to share their views on the war and the March 19 actions. Some will deliver brief statements at the rally after the march. The following comments capture some of the reasons for this protest.
Groups endorsing these actions are: American Friends Service Committee(SENE), Rhode Island Community Coalition for Peace, Workers International League, Rhode Island Unitarian-Universalists for Social Justice, Providence Branch of the International Socialist Organization, MoveOn( East Bay ), Operation Iraqi Freedom(Brown Student org.), Green Party of RI, South Kingstown Justice and Peace Advocacy, and East Bay Citizens for Peace.
For more information contact:
Deborah Goldhaft(MoveOn – East Bay ) 465-4998 Kathy Lessuck ( Rhode Island Community Coalition for Peace) – 633-5063 Wally Sillanpoa(Hands Off Venezuela ) 351-3414
There will be actions all week in D.C. Major actions this weekend and next weekend. March 19th is generally considered the anniversary of the invasion. Iraq Veterans Against the War have been holding Winter Soldier testimonials from Iraq Vets in D.C. since thursday and will continue doing so all weekend long, link to podcasts here: http://ivaw. org/wintersoldier
I'll be going to the march and protest here in Milwuakee tomorrow and a small action in St. Louis this Wednesday, March 19th.
R.I./Providence Folks: WEDNESDAY, March 19, Rhode Islanders will mark the end of the fifth year of the war on Iraq with a march through downtown Providence followed by a rally on the mall side of the State House. At 4:00 pm, participants will gather at Burnside Park(Kennedy Plaza Park), where the march will form and move toward the headquarters of weapons manufacturer, Textron. The march will also pass two military recruiting offices.
Wild Nights and forgotten thoughts Live only in my past I am no longer that woman That child, in a time oh surpassed.
What triumphs I have conquered That I leave in the dark From a life I shouldn’t have lived A styled I shouldn’t have embarked
Along such weary feelings, That sponge my clouded being With cantankerous attitudes With no befriended guaranteeing
I block the mango, the rice, and potatoes And bask only in the melon Because I fret the mockers, Who judge my people as being convicted felons
They say I’m much too sensitive to the jokes the mockers spout so my hopes seem like troubled feelings and not Black wishes to devout
My fathers’ people have been hated Forced in fields to pick the cotton And promised 40 acre, a mule for being Tortured, humiliated, raped, and forgotten
So YES, I am ashamed of not standing up for my roots Of going out and disgracing my Blackness Being a figure in the night, degrading social classes And for not standing up and attacking the masses
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