Poetry Slam Wednesday February 15!!
Hey y'all!
Exciting News! That's right: Corvallis is about to have its fifth poetry slam at Iovino's Ristorante. Details:
Slam starts at 9:30, sign-up beforehand
Iovino's Ristorante
126 SW 1st Street, Corvallis
Feature: Ray McNiece:
http://raymcniece.com/
Ray has earned a national reputation as a poet and performer for almost two decades through his solo theater pieces, his poetry and music shows, his captaining of 2 National Poetry Slam Championship teams, his "edutaining" children's shows and workshops, and his yearly country-wide tours of performance poems, stories and songs.
Ray is the author of six poetry books – Dis, The Bone-Orchard Conga, The Road that Carried Me Here, Song that Fathoms Home, and Wet Sand Raven Tracks –New Haiku, and Us? Talking Across America, two solo theatre works – Dis – Voices From a Shelter, Us? Talking Across America, two music/poetry collaborations – Mouth Music, A Rust bowl Hootenanny, and one collaborative theatre work – Homegirl meets Whiteboy -- with Shawn Jackson. He also co-edited the anthology of Contemporary Buddhist Poetry, America Zen. The Orlando Sentinel reporting on Ray’s solo show at the Fringe Festival called him “a modern day descendant of Woody Guthrie. He has a way with words and a wry sense of humor.” In a review of his second theatre work, Us? Talking Across America, the Star-Phoenix said, “His thoughtful writing combines with perfectly timed delivery to create a powerful wordscape that owes as much to jazz as drama.” He was the voice of Woody Guthrie in WCPN/NPR’s award winning radio documentary, Hard Travellin’.
This is also Corvallis' semi-finals. The top five poets from January's slam and from February's slam go to March's to determine a team. I know this is early in the year, but we're trying to get a head-start on things.
So come, slam, listen, cheer, drink, be merry!
Hearts,
Michael
Exciting News! That's right: Corvallis is about to have its fifth poetry slam at Iovino's Ristorante. Details:
Slam starts at 9:30, sign-up beforehand
Iovino's Ristorante
126 SW 1st Street, Corvallis
Feature: Ray McNiece:
http://raymcniece.com/
Ray has earned a national reputation as a poet and performer for almost two decades through his solo theater pieces, his poetry and music shows, his captaining of 2 National Poetry Slam Championship teams, his "edutaining" children's shows and workshops, and his yearly country-wide tours of performance poems, stories and songs.
Ray is the author of six poetry books – Dis, The Bone-Orchard Conga, The Road that Carried Me Here, Song that Fathoms Home, and Wet Sand Raven Tracks –New Haiku, and Us? Talking Across America, two solo theatre works – Dis – Voices From a Shelter, Us? Talking Across America, two music/poetry collaborations – Mouth Music, A Rust bowl Hootenanny, and one collaborative theatre work – Homegirl meets Whiteboy -- with Shawn Jackson. He also co-edited the anthology of Contemporary Buddhist Poetry, America Zen. The Orlando Sentinel reporting on Ray’s solo show at the Fringe Festival called him “a modern day descendant of Woody Guthrie. He has a way with words and a wry sense of humor.” In a review of his second theatre work, Us? Talking Across America, the Star-Phoenix said, “His thoughtful writing combines with perfectly timed delivery to create a powerful wordscape that owes as much to jazz as drama.” He was the voice of Woody Guthrie in WCPN/NPR’s award winning radio documentary, Hard Travellin’.
This is also Corvallis' semi-finals. The top five poets from January's slam and from February's slam go to March's to determine a team. I know this is early in the year, but we're trying to get a head-start on things.
So come, slam, listen, cheer, drink, be merry!
Hearts,
Michael
posted by Michael Faris @ 10:04 AM
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