Event

Philly Pigeon Poetry Slam Feat. Crystal Valentine

$15 Reserved Seating www.thephillypigeon.com
This event costs $10. All ages welcome. Adult content.

PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street Philly, PA 19123
(Just North of Spring Garden)

Septa: Broad Street Line, 23,43,61

A poetry slam is a competition between poets performing original work judged by members of the audience. This poetry slam is organized by Jacob Winterstein, Kai Davis and Jasmine Combs.

Come perform, watch or judge.

**Poets wishing to compete should arrive at 8:30 to put their names in the hat. For this month all poets who put their name in the hat pay $5. At 9:00pm poets names will be picked out of the hat. Some poets will be pre-selected.**

The Pigeon* is excited to announce that this month's feature and workshop** leader:

CRYSTAL VALENTINE

Born and raised in the Bronx, Crystal Valentine is a writer, activist and educator. A recent graduate of NYU, Crystal is their current three-time Grand Slam Champion and a member of NYU's poetry slam team with whom she won first place at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitation (CUPSI) in 2013 and 2015.

She was a member of the 2014 Urban Word slam team and is also the 2015 NYC Youth Poet Laureate. She was recently named Glamour Magazine's 2016 Top 10 Most Influential College Women. She is a carrier of #blkgirlmagic and author of her first book, Not Everything is a Eulogy. Crystal describes herself as a lover of food, anime, people and above all, Chance The Rapper