What a night. I got to Lydia's pub from the airport and I was super nervous. Charles picked me up and gave me a ride. I saw a few familiar faces from CFSW at Lydia's when I got there. They were having a CFSW organization meeting and it looks like they have everything well in hand. I brought a lot of merch as per other poets' recommendations. ( Read more... )

At the labour slam last Monday, I wrote this poem about my job. I came in third so that was pretty cool ( Read more... )

A while back, I wrote a poem from the point of view of a Billionaire. It was in response to a friend of mine who said "Oh, were there any poems against 'The Man'" when I told him I went to a poetry slam. I told him that yes there were poems against The Man. He said he'd like to see a poem from the point of view of The Man. I thought that was a ( Read more... )

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I won the poetry slam tonight ( Read more... )

So tonight I came in 3rd against The Svelte Ms. Spelt, Zacheus Jackson, Relevant, Julie Peters, Joe MacDonald, Antonette, Fernando Raguero, Steve Miller, and Johnny MacRae. Coming in third with that crew makes me feel like I just won sixty million dollars or something ( Read more... )

Billionaire Russel Hundreds made an appearance at the Anarchy Poetry Slam on Monday night at Cafe Deux Soleils, along with about thirty of his friends. He laid the smack down on those Commercial Drive Folk before heading back to his private jet on his private airstrip to go back to his private island.

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Boy this is nice. I was looking for some more of the Vancouver Poetry Slam and stumbled upon this woman from Chicago. Papergirl, Tennessee Mary Fons. She seems pretty cool. Stopped being a server and took the leap into writing. Hear, hear. I've listened to this about fifteen times and so far it's not getting old so I'm posting it here. Gives ( Read more... )

That man amongst men, Warren Dean Fulton, has been taping the shows on a regular basis and getting a record of most of the poets. Check out his YouTube channel here. These are two more that he put up today. The Billionaire slam poem is from the night that I tied for 1st with the amazing Lucia Misch. Check 'em out. They're both short.

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I forgot to mention. I tied for first place with Lucia Misch last night and we had to have a haiku death match to decide the winner. I don't remember what hers was because I was too busy shitting my brain trying to come up with something but this is what I came up with ( Read more... )