13th Annual Mesa National Slamoff Poets Compete for spots on team
Worldwide audience will be able to watch

[Mesa, AZ} Anthology, Inc. in association with Brick Cave Media are
planning to provide a groundbreaking webcast of the 2008 Mesa National
Poetry Slamoff Championships to be held on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at
Essenza Coffeehouse in Mesa, AZ.

The event is open to all poets that would like a chance to become a
member of the Mesa Poetry Slam Team and compete in the National Poetry
Slam in Madison, WI this coming August. Poets should bear in mind the
rules of poetry slam, 3 minute performance time limit per round, 3
rounds, original work only, etc.

The Show is free to get in, and starts at 8PM. Poets should be there
by 7PM in order to get signed in and earn a spot in the reading
rotation. It is $1 to slam, the top four poets will be invited to join
the Mesa Slam Team. Money will also be raised to pay the team's
registration fee and travel expenses. Interested persons can contact
Essenza Coffeehouse, 1350 S Longmore, Mesa, AZ 480.461.0445.

The Mesa Slam Team has a long and storied history, starting in 1996,
and have reached the Semi-Finals of the National Poetry Slam Three
Times (1999, 2000 and 2005). Mesa Slammaster The Klute has been on
Three teams and reached the semi-finals in 2005.

Brick Cave Media, a local literary arts online website developed by
former Anthology Executive Director and founder Bob Nelson, will be
providing a free webcast of the event through the website's
SpokenWorld.com subsidiary. Interested persons will be able to visit
SpokenWorld.com and watch the show in it's entirety.

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.

Since 1994, Anthology has coordinated and promoted countless spoken
word events and programs designed to enrich the lives of our
community. More information on Anthology can be found at
http://www.anthology.org.

BCM is the outlet for a series of creative projects managed by writers
Bob Nelson, Sharon Skinner and a select group of others. The site
itself came because people kept asking what we were up to, we'd tell
them, and they's say "wow, that's cool, I'll pay you for one of those"
(whatever "those" happen to be at the moment). More information on
Brick Cave Media can be found at http://www.brickcavemedia.com.