The March 6th Open Mic Night!
Here’s the first half of last night’s show, for those of you who missed it or couldn’t be there. If you’re in the position to, please click on the “donate” tab and help out the show.
That bitch Coronavirus has forced us to go on a hiatus!
The University of Dayton Litfest is coming!
Help get our Poet to the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships!
Hi there folks!
We need your help to send Dayton's first representative in over 10 years to San Diego!
Click here and donate what you can, we'll be ever so grateful and 100% of these funds goes to send our poet out West in October!
https://www.gofundme.com/send-our-poet-to-iwps&rcid=r01-153350602484-083cd60d543146bd&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w
The Rules for the Lip Sync Slam!
Here it is folks and it's not that complicated:
1) Pick either your favorite song or Slam Poem on YouTube (try to keep it to 3:30)
2) Gear up with costumes, if you wish
3) Get up on stage and perform the song or poem without uttering a sound!
4) survive and you could win $100!
A great little write-up about the Slam! Read and repost!
Take a look here and a big thanks to Stephanie for a great article!
http://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/did-you-know-dayton-got-one-the-longest-running-slam-poetry-nights-ohio/JhB7HtYuu75Z1LtA2yDTNP/
Now Accepting PayPal
Greetings folks!
Well, one question that keeps coming up at the show is "when are you going to take cards", well, we've taken our first steps towards taking cards and finding new ways to generate funds that may, one day, replace the donation box.
If you look at our homepage, you'll see a "donate" button! Click there and you can donate the standard $2 or go up the chain if you're feeling generous!
And there's going to be more to come very soon!
See you at the next show!
The next show is pushed back a week until the 12th
Hey folks, just a heads up, but the Siri Imani show has been pushed back a week! Yellow Cab is going through some construction right now and are going to be closed on the 5th.
Spread the word and see you on the 12th!
-the Crew
We are a Safe Space!
Hey there folks, Link here!
With so much drama going on with the upcoming Presidential and, apparent, country-wide shift; I wanted to take a moment to assure each and every one of you that we have always been and will always be a friend to the LBGT community and are a safe space!
If you want to share your poetry, you can do it here; regardless of your sexual orientation, gender association, or which pronoun set you prefer!
It's going to be a long four years, but we can make it through it we all stick together!
How to make a sock puppet!
So with the sock puppet slam coming up this Sunday, we thought that it'd be a great idea to show you how!
The Ohio Meatgrinder Slam this weekend!
Hey folks,
This Saturday, Dayton is reaching out and playing with some of our poetic neighbors up in Columbus! It's the Ohio Meatgrinder Slam! There's 10 teams of poets including:
- Lake Effect Poetry - Cleveland, OH
- Poet's Haven - NE OH
- Reserved - Columbus, OH
- Reserved - Columbus, OH
- One and a Half Black Men - Columbus, OH
- TBD (Nathan Cintax) - Columbus, OH
- Writing Knights - Canton, OH
- Poems from Different Area Codes - Detroit, MI
- First-Timers - Columbus, OH
- Dayton Poertry Slam - Dayton, OH
Workshops open to all start at 10 am and the bouts start at 3pm! So, if you're so inclined for a little road-trip, we would love a cheering section from the Gem City!
The Team representing Dayton is: Johnathan, Prophessor X, Nathan, and Link!
The whole event is happening at the Kafe Kerouac on High Street on OSU campus!
Check out their website at: http://meatgrinder.rewritingovid.net/index.php
The rules for the Anti-Slam!
With the Anti-Slam coming up this Sunday night at Yellow Cab Tavern, I thought that it would be a great idea to lay out the ground rules and give you some ideas as to what really consitutes a bad poem.
THE RULES:
Three rounds of bad poems. Poets will have three minutes and ten seconds to perform a poem of their own creation. Costumes are allowed (and encouraged) as are minor props; however, the time limit will add points to the score for infractions. The poet with the lowest scores move on to the next round. The winner will receive something special for their troubles!
SUGGESTIONS:
The best bad poet/poem is not a shocking one. You're not trying to rile the audience up...you want to make them cringe with your horrible metaphors, flawed similes, and nonsensical list poems. The best approach is to parody yourself! For example, taken from an article written by Claire Trevein of Sabotage Reviews:
"What makes for a truly awful poem? As was the case with the Bullshit conference, a fruitful route was for the poets to either parody themselves or the ‘field’ with which they were associated. Danny Chivers for instance, well-known as an environmental activist, turned up dressed in a crown of leaves and a hi-vis jacket, issuing hippy-tastic lines of this ilk:
‘I didn’t write this poem
it found me
and it made love to my mind’‘every time you dry your hair
you kill another polar bear’
George Chopping, well-known in Oxford for his whimsical poetry, also came as a parody of himself, dressed in a ‘Gone Fishing’ manner embodying perfectly the part of a muddled over-reaching poet.
Different genres were mercilessly brought to the stage, from Kate Byard’s cringeworthy diary entries ‘Dear diary, life is pain. Aged 12’, to James Webster’s list poem ’10 ways in which my love for you is like the Pokemon Bulbasaur’. Repetitions, a common bugbear in slam poetry, were teased by Pete the Temp’s ‘I need you’, and A. F. Harrold’s more absurdist ‘fish are better than cats’. Love poems of course, were de rigueur, brilliantly executed by Sophia Blackwell in particular, who loves you ‘like super tampons love heavy flow’, leading judge Sally Outen to declare that the poem had not only destroyed her liking for Sophia, but also ‘for the concept of love itself’."
So have fun with it! Remember, you don't have to be shocking and offensive...just write like you're a teenager feeling the pains of the drive-thru Starbucks Barista who is ignoring their obvious and totally subliminal attempts to enter the throws of passion!
We're heading back to RiverScape on Friday 6/4!
Hey folks, we have two different cavalcades of poets coming down to RiverScape on Friday night to help the night along!
We'll have two sets of poets reading through the night! 5:30pm and 7:50pm!
Confirmed poets: Link Schreiber, Tyler King, The Bars Kid, Bree, and Dan Robinson!
Come on out and cheer on your favorites!
Dayton Poetry Slam performing all over: Sideshow 11
A huge thanks to Richard Brown for these videos!
Dayton Slam Poets performing all over! Videos from RiverScape!
A huge thanks to Richard Brown for these videos of us out and about!
A little about Tripp Fontane
Dayton native and member of the Underdog Academy artistic collective, Tripp Fontane, has been slowly but surely creating a name for himself throughout the Midwest. In recent years, Tripp has traveled all throughout Ohio and continues to exercise his reach across the country. Coming from humble beginnings, Tripp uses his life experience to paint a very unique picture of his city and his upbringing. Making tactful use of transparency and vulnerability,no topic is off limits for Tripp. His gritty content and smooth delivery have both made him a fan favorite in many arenas of Ohio's Spoken Word movement. From community work to event coordinating, Tripp Fontane relentlessly uses his gifts to benefit the minds and everyday lives of the people. You're always in for a one of a kind poetry experience!
A little about Atlas before the show
Atlas started performing poetry after he was stationed at WPAFB in 2013. In the summer of 2014, Atlas teamed up with three other poets to form Underdog Academy performing in various different cities throughout the Midwest. Since joining UA, Atlas' writing has grown to voice the perspectives of marginalized people and to share his experiences through art and performance
Listen Tonight on WYSO!
John, Prophessor X, Chasity, and Link will all be featured guests tonight on Kaleidoscope at 9pm on WYSO!
Tune in!
Ed Mabrey Interview!
Hey folks, another big thanks to Ed Mabrey for taking part of this interview AND to Nathan Tipton and Galen (see, I got your name right!)
Take a listen and you'll get to hear his set from the feature a couple of weeks ago!