1. Thursday: Walker Open Field with the other local slam teams.
http://walkerart.org/openfield/ (Mpls)
2. Friday: Hip Hop Against Homophobia (Volume 6), at the Bedlam at 10:30pm in Mpls.
3. Riot Act Readings: Sunday at 8pm at the Turf Club in St. Paul.
4. Geek Slam: Tuesday the 27th at (new) Kieran’s in Block E in Mpls.
5. Cross-Dressing Slam: Friday the 30th at Echo Arts, 275 4th street E. (Located in the basement, suite B200. Please use the back alley door from Wall st.), Saint Paul, MN
6. The Erotic Slam: Monday the 2nd Sunday the 1st at the AQ in St. Paul.
7. National Poetry Slam Prelims: Tuesday the 3rd at the AQ in St. Paul (versus St. Paul’s own Soapboxing team, the reigning champs, NYC Urbana, and Baton Rouge’s Eclectic Truth.) at 7pm.
8. National Poetry Slam Prelims: Wednesday the 4th at the AQ in St. Paul (versus SlamRichmond and both of the North Carolina teams.) at 9pm.
9? 10? Semis? Finals? (We’ve got hard (amazing) prelim bouts, so it’s a bit doubtful, but we’ll be there, supporting and rocking out with our poet friends regardless of whether we’re competing with them as well.)
11. Hosting some sort of slam at a literary day somewhere in Wisconsin August 14th.
So, I’m busy. I’ve gone on a couple of dates with a sweet, funny boy. I photographed a hip hop heavy wedding and am editing the nearly 3000 photographs I took that day. I put together slam team chapbooks for the Punch Out Poetry slam team. My own Army of Nursery Rhymes chapbook is going to finally come back from the printers this week, it sounds like. My little sister sent me earrings and a necklace as a rather belated birthday present, and I like them a TON. CON being over, I can now read what I want to on my long commutes to work, and am reading a big ole biography. Anyhow, not much time for more updates. Getting back to editing photos now.
See some of you soon at some of these events, hopefully. I’m putting on the cross-dressing slam, and would LOVE to have you there to support ($7, goes to paying me back for the registration fees for our slam team.)







