Spellbound Poetry Slam: 4th Team Qualifier

Join us at the Gold Lion Community Cafe.

The Spellbound Poetry Slam Team is back with another slam season!! Poets from around the state and beyond come to compete for a spot on our team!! These poets bring amazing poems and leave their all on our stage! Join us and witness more history in the making!

Tickets: $10.00 per person online and $15.00 per person at the door.

(We accept Cash, Cashapp, and Venmo at the door.)

Doors Open at 6:00PM.

Show starts at 6:30PM.

Rules/Details: 10 (12...we're considering) poets will present their original work for the audience, 5 judges picked from the audience will score the poems from 0.0 to 10.0 using decimals to minimize ties.

ALL ROUNDS ARE CLEAN SLATE...this means scores for each round only matter to that round!! There are 3 rounds! Poets, come ready with 3 poems of your original work!

Poets will have 3:00 minute w/ a 10sec grace period to perform their poems. Usually there is a .5 for every 10sec a poet goes over...but here at SpellBound we don't do unnecessary math...so if a poem hits 3:11 the Poet will be disqualified from moving on!!

The cuts for each round will be 1st-10(12) poets 2nd-6(7) poets 3rd-3poets If there is a tie going from the 1st to 2nd...or 2nd to 3rd round...we will not take the tying poets to the next round!! IF a tie happens for 1st place, there will be a final head to head round. The judges will select between Poet A and Poet B. Be ready! This COULD be a lightning 1 min round!

Time starts when the Poet engages the audience

No props, costumes, or anything accompanying the poets work...just words and performance

The top 2 poets of the night will earn their spots in our Grandslam in December that will determine who makes it onto Spellbound's 2026 competing team!

Also check out other Arts events in Richmond, Literary Art events in Richmond.