Hey people! Tonight is our last house party to support Team Cake's trip to the National Poetry Slam in August. It's a fundraiser, so bring funds if you have...
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Jul 9, 2008 3:15 pm
Sweet fancy Moses. After an absence of nearly a year, the Anarchy Slam makes its triumphant return. It will now be located at Veritas Books&Coffee on...
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Jul 16, 2008 4:41 pm
Bob Dylan wrote and performed All Along the Watchtower before Jimi Hendrix, but whose version do you remember? Performing the work of another artist can be a...
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Jul 21, 2008 2:28 pm
Yeah, sure. You've seen the eight billion emails I've already sent out about this. But trust me, it's cool. It's a Poetry Slam, with a twist. For one night...
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Jul 28, 2008 1:50 pm
The Anarchy Slam is so lawless, it can't be asked to commit to a venue. Or--it's so destructive, it closes coffeeshops before it is even held. I like that one...
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Jul 31, 2008 3:58 pm
I could type till my fingers are bloody stumps, but let's see what the Boise Weekly says about Anarchy: The Anarchy Poetry Slam is your chance to bust out some...
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Aug 15, 2008 1:58 pm
My brother told the greatest joke ever when he was three years old. "Why did the bears cross the road? So they wouldn't fall in the soup." Absolutely...
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cheryl_madda...
Aug 17, 2008 4:15 am
Hey folks, especially poets: Now that TEAM Nationals is over (whoo! we had fun! ask us how!), it's time to think about the Individual World Poetry Slam, which...
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Aug 25, 2008 7:00 pm
It's true. It's finally been initiated, negotiated and finalized and, most importantly, will actually happen! (There's even a contract.) This new all-ages...
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Sep 2, 2008 3:11 pm
It's fall and things are changing. The weather is getting to be on the butt-ass freezing side. Hurricanes seem to not be destroying culturally diverse Gulf...
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Sep 9, 2008 3:34 pm
While we had a Finals in April to choose a team for the National Poetry Slam, we now have the chance to send one person to iWPS (Individual World Poetry Slam)...
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Sep 15, 2008 3:06 pm
The time has come for Indie Finals. Soon we shall know who among us is the grandest of all the champions of Boise. This altered format slam (1st Round: 1 and...
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cheryl_madda...
Sep 26, 2008 2:21 am
Hey folks, A Boise native has a documentary called "2nd Verse: The Rebirth of Poetry" playing as a part of the Idaho International Film Festival. It is a...
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Sep 29, 2008 9:28 pm
The Slam of Steel is back at Woman of Steel Gallery for its second month. In addition to the usual all-ages, all-comers slam poetry competion and Head-to-Head...
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Oct 7, 2008 1:33 pm
Slam of Steel, part 2 will include a feature by Vancouver, BC poet Scruffmouth as well as Head-to-Head Haiku and our usual two-round all-comers slam. If...
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Oct 14, 2008 1:27 pm
Hitting caps lock for the subject heading means I'm SCREAMING the information so you don't forget. Next Monday, Oct. 20, we return to the usual format of an...
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Oct 20, 2008 4:06 pm
Travel with me now, back in time. To a place where boys sell newspapers wearing woollen knickerbockers and silly hats... "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Read all about it!...
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Oct 28, 2008 5:17 pm
Here are your instructions for November 4: Step 1: Provided you are over 18 years of age, vote at your designated polling place. Step 2: Workshop a...
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Nov 4, 2008 4:30 pm
Forget this voting business. Okay, don't forget it. Go. Vote. But when you are done, be sure you write a poem about it to perform at the slam. POLITICAL...
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Nov 10, 2008 5:10 pm
November 17 will see Poetry Slam deLux once again invade PENGILLY'S SALOON, as we have been bumped from our usual venue, Neurolux Lounge, for another concert....
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Nov 17, 2008 1:15 pm
We're back at PENGILLY'S once again for November's Poetry Slam deLux, the only slam in Boise with a $100 grand prize. Our slam is also Marmot-free, so don't...
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Nov 25, 2008 5:46 pm
Well, it's the holidays. And we all know what that means: using food as a means of escape from familial conversations and tryptophan comas. But it's not all...
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cheryl_madda...
Dec 2, 2008 4:39 pm
Have you been to Slam of Steel yet? Get out of the rain and come to Woman of Steel gallery tonight and check out the totally different vibe a slam has when...
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Dec 15, 2008 4:17 pm
Poetry Slam deLux-mas Carrol (to the tune of Jingle Bells) Slogging through the slush Trudging all around Eating tasteless mush Oh-Where can we get down? A...
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Dec 29, 2008 3:19 pm
Ever wonder what the number system for this newsletter is based on? I did too, so I did some research. As it turns out, the updates started being numbered in...
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Jan 6, 2009 3:27 am
SWEET FANCY MOSES! It's 2009! The last year of the first decade of the new millennium. Wrap your head around THAT! What better way to kick this bad boy off...
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Jan 12, 2009 3:29 pm
Have no fear. We will hold our monthly Poetry Slam deLux, as always, on the third Monday of this month (Jan. 19). This month will simply be at Pengilly's...
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Jan 15, 2009 5:11 pm
Holy cow do we have a whole heap of Poetry Slam events in our near future! So many that I don't even know what kind of witty pre-detail banter I can come up...
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Jan 19, 2009 3:54 am
You may be feeling a bit bombarded with all of the Boise Slam Poetry news of late, but believe me, it's a good thing. I just don't want anyone to forget that...
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cheryl_madda...
Jan 25, 2009 2:53 am
Hey folks, We have a wonderful, FREE event coming up next Friday, but you need to RSVP to attend. Why would you want to commit to an event next Friday? Because...
