WordSpace Non-Board Programming Committee Member RockBaby, award winning poet, teacher, HBO Def Jam poet and Host of the Dallas Poetry Slam Slam curates a monthly Dallas Slam Featured Reader Series for WordSpace.
iChat Readings: Interconnecting with writers around the world :Abol Froushan looks on–Live from London, March 13, 2010.
Video by Peter Orozco
Dallas Poetry Slam Founder, Clebo Rainey, will participate in the Dallas Slam warm up for their upcoming National competition:
Past Dallas Grand Slam Champions slated to perform include GNO , Twain, Nnamdi, Nastasha and 2008, 2009 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and European World Cup Poetry Slam Champion, Joaquin Zihuatanejo .
The “Old vs New” Slam is part of the team’s preparations for the National Poetry Slam in St. Paul, Minnesota, representing the City of Dallas. The 2010 Dallas Poetry Slam team will test their mettle against wordsmiths of former teams.
Patrons will experience beatnik style poetry from Clebo Rainey , the celebrated founder of “Dallas Poetry Slam and Dallas’ first underground record store “Metamorphosis Records”, whose poetry was influenced by the likes of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti who questioned mainstream politics and culture.
Hosted by HBO Def Poet and Dallas Poetry Slam organizer, Roderick “Rock Baby” Goudy.
WordSpace is proud to recognize Paperbacks Plus among our original collaborators, friends and supporters. They’ve been enigmatic open doors to poets, artists, and musicians for over 30 years. Special Thanks to John Tilton and Marquetta Herring . To further investigate Paperbacks Plus, check out their website, www.luckydogbooks.com or go by and visit their store at 6115 in Old East Dallas.
Sponsored by Ricardo Avila’s MEXTOPIA Ricardo Avila and his partner, Michelle Andrie .
Corey Marks teaches at the University of North Texas and serves, with Bruce Bond, as Poetry Editor of American Literary Review . He is winner the Natalie Ornish prize, Texas Institiute for Letters, the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review. a National Poetry Series winner for his book, Renunciation and a National Endowment for the Arts recipient.
Farid Matuk is the author of Is it the King? (Effing, 2006). New poems are forthcoming in Typesetter, Barrelhouse , and The Boston Review , among others. His translations of Spanish language poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Bombay Gin and Translation Review . His essays and reviews have appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter , Sentence , and Cross Cultural Poetics (XCP), among others.
Hosted by Karen X
Fluid Imagery is a poet, orator, songstress, edifier, spoken word artist mother and realist. It is her belief that words can be used to heal, hurt, soothe, relate, edify and uplift. She uses the gifts that she has been blessed with to bring an awareness of issues that all people face. She believes that life and death lies in the power of the tongue and that you have to speak good things into existence. She also believes that if you dont know the past, it can haunt your present and distort your future. Her style of poetry blends song with prose to tell stories of injustice, love, pain, desires, and life. It has been branded transparent poetry as she often puts a face to the pain people go through but dare not mention. She writes snippets of her life in every piece that is penned. It is her desire to be a blessing to others through poetry, prose and psalms. Fluid Imagery… I speak……… therefore.. .I AM!!!.
Hosted by Rock Baby and Alexandra Marie
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