Poetry Slam back at Colorscape
NORWICH – Colorscape Chenango presents the 11th Annual Competitive Poetry Slam Saturday, Sept. 8, 2 - 5 p.m. at the Blarney Stone Pub, 26 South Broad St.
Poets of all ages and levels of experience will compete for cash prizes, including members of the Oneonta and New York City teams and poets from across the country. Colorscape’s Slam attracts an eclectic mix of poets from 14 to 90 years of age and has always included both local and national talent.
Poets are judged 50% on the quality of their poem and 50% on their performance, with scoring open and immediate.
Colorscape’s competition has become one of the fastest growing poetry slams in this part of the nation as performance poetry continues to grow in popularity. The event is free and open to the public.
Featured poet Sierra DeMulder is one of the most accomplished and recognizable young women in the world of slam poetry. The two-time National Poetry Slam champion has spent the past five years energizing audiences at colleges and poetry events across the nation, seamlessly weaving complex issues of identity and gender with the honesty of heartbreak. Her poetry not only proves to be an entertaining journey but inevitably leaves crowds reaching for more.
Outside of her own competitions, Sierra coached the Macalester College slam team to a CUPSI championship in 2011. She launched her own teaching initiative in which she conducted weekly poetry classes geared towards aspiring poets of all ages in the Twin Cities. Her second book, New Shoes on a Dead Horse, was published in January 2012 by Write Bloody Publishing.
Sierra has featured in hundreds of venues across the country, performing her poetry and facilitating writing workshops in high schools, colleges, homeless shelters, prisons, churches, farmers’ markets, and people’s basements. When not doing poetry, she enjoys playing ukulele, making full use of public transportation, and waxing on about feminism.
The Blarney Stone Pub is audience and performer friendly, appropriately intimate and accessible to all. Beverages will be on sale at the bar; bartenders will be ID’ing for alcoholic drinks. Children under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian, as some mature language may be used.
The poetry slam is sponsored by Price Chopper, ACCO Brands and Norwich Pharmaceuticals.
Poets of all ages and levels of experience will compete for cash prizes, including members of the Oneonta and New York City teams and poets from across the country. Colorscape’s Slam attracts an eclectic mix of poets from 14 to 90 years of age and has always included both local and national talent.
Poets are judged 50% on the quality of their poem and 50% on their performance, with scoring open and immediate.
Colorscape’s competition has become one of the fastest growing poetry slams in this part of the nation as performance poetry continues to grow in popularity. The event is free and open to the public.
Featured poet Sierra DeMulder is one of the most accomplished and recognizable young women in the world of slam poetry. The two-time National Poetry Slam champion has spent the past five years energizing audiences at colleges and poetry events across the nation, seamlessly weaving complex issues of identity and gender with the honesty of heartbreak. Her poetry not only proves to be an entertaining journey but inevitably leaves crowds reaching for more.
Outside of her own competitions, Sierra coached the Macalester College slam team to a CUPSI championship in 2011. She launched her own teaching initiative in which she conducted weekly poetry classes geared towards aspiring poets of all ages in the Twin Cities. Her second book, New Shoes on a Dead Horse, was published in January 2012 by Write Bloody Publishing.
Sierra has featured in hundreds of venues across the country, performing her poetry and facilitating writing workshops in high schools, colleges, homeless shelters, prisons, churches, farmers’ markets, and people’s basements. When not doing poetry, she enjoys playing ukulele, making full use of public transportation, and waxing on about feminism.
The Blarney Stone Pub is audience and performer friendly, appropriately intimate and accessible to all. Beverages will be on sale at the bar; bartenders will be ID’ing for alcoholic drinks. Children under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian, as some mature language may be used.
The poetry slam is sponsored by Price Chopper, ACCO Brands and Norwich Pharmaceuticals.
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