Jamaica Osorio - “Fire and Rain” (CUPSI 2013)
“Love is the desire to do anything to protect someone from the world.”
Jamaica Osorio, performing for NYU during semifinals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Check us out on youtube & Bandcamp!
Jamaica Osorio - “Fire and Rain” (CUPSI 2013)
“Love is the desire to do anything to protect someone from the world.”
Jamaica Osorio, performing for NYU during semifinals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Maddy Schafer - “Aquaman” (CUPSI 2013)
“I just wanted to be somebody’s favorite.”
An awesome and unique persona piece, from Maddy Schafer of Vassar College.
A response to the Fox News correspondent who asked, “What is it about Chicago Public Schools that makes so many of its students murder victims?
On Teaching Poetry in Chicago Public Schools by Stephanie Lane Sutton.
This video is a FINALIST entry in the Write Bloody Publishing book competition. Please “like” this video on YouTube to show support for my book! Reblogs don’t hurt either!
(via fuckyeahslampoems)
Source: drugz
Sam Cook - “God in Code”
“In this country, the poet Christ is primarily worshiped by those who wish him white… who call his murder a miracle and then oppress in his name.”
A first reading from the Saint Paul Soap Boxing Grand Slam.
(via michaelleepoetry)
Source: buttonpoetry
Chelsea Coreen - “Fart”
“But how @%^# up are our standards of beauty, or gender constructs… that we make little girls hold in their farts until no one is around to smell them”
“When I used to visit my grandmother in the hospital she would make me apply her red lipstick for her - she said she couldn’t be seen without it.”
Chelsea Coreen, of SUNY Oneonta, performing during Semi-FInals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Antoine Duke - “Black Picket Fences”
“I always thought those burning crosses you left were your love letters to us…”
Antoine Duke, of Minneapolis Community and Technical College, performing as part of the “Best of the Rest” on Finals stage at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Elliot Darrow - “God is Gay” (CUPSI 2013 Finals)
“Keep in mind, Jesus had two dads and turned out just fine.”
Performing for UNC Chapel Hill during the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Anny Miner - “Wicked Women”
“Yes, I still accepted the boy’s fists as if each were a rose and I was a garden in need of some color.”
Anny Miner, performing for SUNY Oneonta at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
