The Berkeley Slam ft. Landon Smith

THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST!

Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1998, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! 3rd place at Bigfoot 2023 and 2nd place at Bigfoot 2024 in Portland, OR.

don't forget to check us out before the show for the writing workshop, led by one of our crew members.

Doors open @ 7:00PM

Workshop Hosted in Person and Online @ 7:00PM

Poetry Slam SIGN UP LIST Goes out @ 7:00PM

SHOW STARTS AT 8PM!!!

📝Workshop starts at 7:00PM on Zoom ID: TBA

Bio: Landon Smith (he/him) is a father, a professor, a poet, half Mende and half Balanta & Fulani, the amethyst geode on your desk, the cookie tin full of sewing supplies, Frantz Fanon's pocket notebook, Calvin Peete’s broken arm, Trayvon Martin’s last breath.

Despite his institutional degrees, he really became a poet through the East Side Arts Alliance in Oakland. Landon thanks his sister Alia for buying him his first journal, Brit Hill for pushing him to read poetry in public, Black Freighter press for publishing his first book - No Bedtime Stories of Soil, and his mother, Joan, for producing his first poetry album album - A Poem in the Waves. Abolish all prisons and police.

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