FEATURED PERFORMERS
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Host Committee
Paul Marengo
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Baruch Porras-Hernandez |
Baruch Porras-Hernandez is a writer, performer, organizer, visual artist and storyteller based in San Francisco. His writing has been published in numerous anthologies, regularly organizes poetry shows in the bayarea, and is currently the curator and head organizer for The San Francisco Queer Open Mic. |
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Sheri-D Wilson |
Sheri-D Wilson has 8 collections of poetry; her most recent, Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe. Her collection, Re:Zoom (2005, Frontenac House), won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the CanLit Award. | |
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Dan Vera |
Dan Vera's a writer, editor and literary historian living in Washington, DC. He is the author of two collections of poetry Speaking Wiri Wiri, inaugural winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize (Red Hen 2013), and The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books, 2008). |
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Theresa Davis |
Theresa Davis is the mother of three and was a classroom teacher for over twenty years. She reclaimed her love for poetry ten years ago after the loss of her father.In May of 2013, as a contracted author, with Sibling Rivalry Press, Theresa will release her published collection of poems "After This We Go Dark." |
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Nathan Say |
Nathan Say is a queer disabled performance poet based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. His work skillfully bridges the worlds of mental illness, physical disability, & queerness begging us to look inside ourselves in the process. The Other Side of Rain is his debut Performance Poetry CD. |
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Adam Stone |
Adam Stone has represented venues at the National Poetry Slam eleven times. An invaluable part of the greater Boston poetry community, Adam served as Day Events Coordinator for the 2011 National Poetry Slam in Boston and Cambridge. |
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David Bateman |
David Bateman Currently based in Toronto, David Bateman is visual artist, performance poet, and playwright. He has taught literature and creative writing at a variety of Canadian post-secondary institutions. |
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Regie Cabico |
Regie Cabico (Capturing Fire, Producer) is one of the country's leading innovators and pioneers of the poetry slam having won 3 top prizes in the 1993, 1994 & 1997 National Poetry Slams and winning The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. |