Hello everyone-

Bob Nelson, Phoenix/Mesa Slammaster here to tell you about an
upcoming event that Anthology, Inc., our local nonprofit has planned.
Recently, the host venue of The Greater Phoenix Poetry Slam, a place
called The Paper Heart, opened up a couple days for us in October,
Thursday the 19th and Friday the 20th, to allow us to schedule a
regional poetry slam event.
The Paper Heart, online at http://www.thepaperheart.com, is one
of the best Arts venues in the southwest, having a full stage with
sound and a full bar doesn't hurt, but the owner has been a catalyst
for the tremendous art walks that we have seen in Phoenix over the
last 10 years, and he happens to like Bill Campana as well as the
rest of our slam crew a whole lot.

But enough of that, on to the event...

http://www.anthology.org/Necromancer06.html

We've set up a two day poetry slam for twenty poets to
participate. Anyone is welcome to register from anywhere if you'd
like to come to Phoenix in October. Registration is $20. Prizes are
$250 for 1st, $100 for 2nd and $50 for third. Since October will be
in most communities iWPS seasons, we borrowed a page from the format
for the Thursday preliminaries. We'll have two preliminary rounds on
Thursday night, each with 10 poets. The preliminary rounds will have
a Three minute round, a Two minute round and a One minute round. The
top five poets from each of the two preliminaries will move to the
Friday night final, which will be three rounds at three minutes apiece.

Oh, and we've set up some interesting fun activities as well, like
a water Balloon Showdown (because yeah, October is still hot in Phx)
and Boggle Tourney on Friday, as well as some additional intra-show
fun with some of our local performance artists.

Anyway, I just put up the website tonite, so feel free to check
out the details and send me any questions, which I will answer and
put together a FAQ as well...

Thanks, and I hope to see everyone in Phoenix!


Bob Nelson

Director, Anthology, Inc.
Anthology’s mission is to promote performance poetry and associated
literary arts in the greater Phoenix community by providing
opportunities for artists
to perform their work and by making spokenword arts accessible to a
diverse audience. More information on Anthology and how you can
become a member can be found at http://www.anthology.org .





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