Do you love spoken word poetry? Want to see a poetry slam? Are you a slam poet? Want to perform at or judge a poetry slam? Try your hand at the premier poetry competition in Richmond!
This month we celebrate our LGBTQIA+ poets! We want to hear your stories of hardship and triumph and love and liberation and everything in between!
Whether you are in the community or an ally come through, but this month's slam is for our 🌈 family.
$10 admission
Doors OPEN at 7pm
Show STARTS at 8 pm
This month, hosted by Rieka Speaks with tunes by DJ Kinfolk
Rules #InTheDen
There are 3 elimination rounds. All registered poets will compete in the first round. The top scores will move forward in the competition that night.
We start with a maximum of 10 poets. 7 move on to the second round. 4 move on to the last round
Each round is clean slate. We do not add the scores together from previous rounds
Poems must be your original work
-poems are scored by 5 judges on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0. the highest and lowest scores are dropped. The three remaining score are totaled, giving a poet their score for that round. the highest score a poem can receive is a 30.
The order of performances is determined during the slam via a random draw. The host will pull names out of a hat each round
-poets get the maximum amount of 3 minutes and 10 seconds to perform. anything second over that results in a 0 for that round. The time starts once the poet engages the audience either by addressing the crowd verbally or doing a purposeful movement that infers the performance has started.
No props are allowed onstage. you may read from a page or device but do not make reference to the page or device because it will be considered a prop at that point. violation of the prop rule will result in disqualification
- winner of that night will receive a small cash prize.
contact Roscoe Burnems or DM @thewritersdenrva on IG for more info
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