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Philly Pigeon Poetry Slam Feat. Gabriel Ramirez
All ages welcome. Adult content expected.
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 is:
GABRIEL RAMIREZ
is a Queer Afro-Latinx poet, activist, and teaching artist. Gabriel has received fellowships from The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Watering Hole, and Callaloo. Gabriel has performed on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, United Nations, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theatre and other venues & universities around the nation. Gabriel was featured in Huffington Post, VIBE Magazine, Blavity, Upworthy, The Flama, and Remezcla. You can find his work in various spaces, including Youtube, and in publications like The Volta, Winter Tangerine, Wusgood, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, VINYL, and in ¡MANTECA!: an Anthology of Afro-Latino Poetry (Arte Público Press 2017), Bettering American Poetry Anthology (Bettering Books 2017) and forthcoming in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press 2019)
No refunds or exchanges.
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LocationPhilaMOCA (View)
531 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
United States
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