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.
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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.
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.
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.
Emi Mahmoud - “People Like Us”
“The worst thing about genocide isn’t the hunger, the murder, the politics, the government-paid soldiers that chase you across borders and into camps - it’s the silence.”
Emi Mahmoud, performing for Yale University at the 2013 College University Poetry Slam Invitational.
University of Connecticut - “Captain Stress Reliever and His Young Ward Companion Calm”
One of the most entertaining group pieces of CUPSI. Mikhail Gilbert and Zachary Johnson of the University of Connecticut, with a poem that you’re probably going to need as you approach finals.
Anny Miner - “Isis” (CUPSI 2013)
“I had accepted that I would never be safe in a relationship, that something about my heart was too forgiving, too soft and easy for a man to form a fist around.”
Anny Miner, performing for SUNY Oneonta during semifinals at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Aaron Burstein - “Social Anxiety at 130 BPM”
“A good time is the most honest thing in the universe, so why do I feel like the only liar here?”
Aaron Burstein, performing for the University of Connecticut during semifinals at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Tonya Ingram - “Unsolicited Advice (after Jeanann Verlee)” (CUPSI 2013)
“When your mother asks you why you take so long in the shower, tell her that you hate this cancer, this dark that wears you like a plague.”
Tonya Ingram, performing for NYU on finals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. NYU went on to win the tournament for the second year in a row.
