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Philly Pigeon Poetry Slam Feat. Clint Smith
$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:
CLINT SMITH
Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University. He is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion, a Cave Canem Fellow, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, The Guardian, and Boston Review.
His TED Talks, The Danger of Silence & How to Raise a Black Son in America have been collectively viewed more than 5 million times.
His first full-length collection of poems, Counting Descent, was published in September 2016 by Write Bloody Publishing and is available for purchase at Barnes & Noble, Powell's Books, and Amazon.
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LocationPhilaMOCA (View)
531 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
United States
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