You can see it in the way our cheeks stretch out like arms wanting nothing more than to say, 'You are welcome here.' - from Convenience Stores by Buddy Wakefield
Helping you write the poem that will change the world.
Music
DJ PowerTripp, Bavu Blakes, Blacklisted Individuals, The Cipher, Clark Perry, DrumJam, Pilarsito, Mojoe, Money Waters, Phil Aulie's Ukulele, PUBLIC OFFENDERS, SuperHouse
Movies
Love Jones, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Romeo & Juliet, Say Anything..., Slam, Slam Nation, Slam Planet, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Tom & Viv, Word Becomes Flesh, World's Greatest Poetry Slam 2006
Television
Def Poetry Jam
Books
Blood Sugar by Nicole Blackman, codeswitching by Melissa Benham, The Janis Year by Dawn Saylor, Maya Angelou: Poems by Maya Angelo, The Norton Anthology of Poetry,
Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry by Gary Glazner, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Robert Frost, Some They Can't Contain by Buddy Wakefield, The Spoken Word Revolution by Mark Eleveld,
Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Heroes
You five minutes from now.
The Say Anything Youth Open Mic's Details
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About me: Say Anything Youth Open Mic is Austin's newest open mic performance space for young writers and spoken word artists! Starting Saturday September 27, 2008 from 4:00-7:00 and second and fourth Saturdays thereafter at our new venue of Kick Butt Coffee (5775 Airport Blvd. #725, Austin, TX, 78752, (512) 454-KICK, http://kickbuttcoffee.com/), we encourage you to come and rock the mic! Take risks, read new work, spit, forget your lines, boom-chick-boom-boom-chick sh-clack-clack, read poems that run longer than 3 minutes and 10 seconds, fail and try again, and tip the bartender! Resident Turntablist:DJ PowerTripp
Saturday November 8, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Host: Shay Harris (2007 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team champ, 2008 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team member, and featured performer in Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion)!
Saturday October 25, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: PUBLIC OFFENDERS (Poverty United Building Love in Inner Cities Our Future For Every Nation Does Effect Reality Situations, supporting their newest album "Drop Jewels", with Gator, Lyricist, Phenom, PropheT, and Yoli)!
Co-Hosts: ~~CHI-TOWN~~ and T-Fly (members of The Cipher)!
Saturday September 27, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Zell Miller III (writer, director, and performer in The Evidence of Silence Broken, my child, my child, my alien child, Radio Silence: a word opera; member of the 2004 and 2006 Austin Poetry Slam Team and Xenogia Spokenword Collective; host of Speaking the Spoken: The Art of Verse, a monthly open mic series at The Vortex theater; and co-artistic director of UpRise! Productions)!
Host: [[Netta Boo]] (member of The Cipher)!
Saturday July 12, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Jonathon "Korim" Sterling(champ of the 2008 Austin Neo-Soul Poetry Slam Team, member of the 2007 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team, champ of the 2006 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team)!
Host: *CORA* (member of The Cipher and featured performer in Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion)!
Saturday June 28, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: The 2008 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team!
Host: Jonathon "Korim" Sterling (champ of the 2008 Austin Neo-Soul Poetry Slam Team, member of the 2007 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team, champ of the 2006 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team)!
Who I'd like to meet: Young writers, poets, beatboxers, MCs, DJs, improv artists, hip hopsters, slamsters, rappers, monologuists, B-boys & B-girls, comedians, forensic debaters, freestylers, playwrights, and you.
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