How good is the crew of ladies running WOW this year? So good that when a venue had a communication failure last night two hours before the festivities they fired up their phones, made a couple of calls and scored an equally awesome space at Barleys in thirty minutes...with time left over to advertise online everywhere about the change. Even when ( Read more... )

My next week is pretty busy poetry-wise:

- Saturday, February 20 - MCing slam @ Heavyweight Poetry Slam w/ Talaam Acey @ Columbus Convention Center, 8:30
- Thursday, February 25 - Attending "For the Love of UA Art" fundraiser @ Upper Arlington, OH
- Sunday, February 28 - Reading @ Zanzibar fundraiser 2-4 pm - Columbus, OH

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For the first time ever, we have official live blogging from a PSi Finals stage as it happens. 
Columbus's own Louise Robertson did the dirt and the winner is...

RACHEL McKIBBENS!!!

See the details here:
http://wow.poetryslam.com/

Congrats to ALL of the ladies in finals, especially recent former Columbus poet Chauncey Beaty, who made it to the second ( Read more... )

Always subject to change, but probably just fine:

1) T. Miller                     1          28.9     1          29.5     2          58.4

2) Dee Matthews            1          28.2     1          29.2     2          57.4

3) Gypsee Yo                 2          27.1     1          29.4     3          56.5

4) Rachel McKibbens     1          28        2 ( Read more... )

HOLY CRAP, that was a good show last night.

Congratulations Vernell!  She's our 2009 WOWps rep.

So I was a LITTLE sneaky.

I was off yesterday and stole away to Detroit for the day so that I could sample SOME part of the first-ever Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS).  I think I only told one or two people, but it wasn't me being sneaky so much as I really hadn't worked it out logistically until the night before.

The drive in was fine (except ( Read more... )

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And so it begins: a new PSI event - the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS) - launches and poetry spreads ever further and faster into the world.  It's very easy to label this event historic, and it deserves the term, but to me there is something more important than historical ( Read more... )

 Wow: this is the first time PSI has ever put out an anthology BEFORE the event happened.
Congratulations to all of the people who got published in this historic volume!

Shout out to 
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Last night's show was, in a word, money.

I had fun MCing ("Por que!!!!!!!") to the most packed room we've had at a Wednesday show yet.  People were sitting on the floor to see the show!  Lots of new faces in the open mic AND the audience, and it was great to see some old faces back.

The star of the show was, of course, the slam.  What a slam.  Those ( Read more... )