OCTOBER 1 POETRY SLAM

The Poetry Slam was canceled due to low sign up.

The Poetry Slam is open to both teens (ages 13-19) and adults.  

There will be a winning teen entrant and a winning adult entrant.  

Winners will receive a prize.

Participation is limited to 20 contestants.

Sign up in advance at the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library,

or send an email to Kim at kclaire@mvlc.org

or call the Library at 978-468-5577 x14

RULES:

Bring 3 original poems no longer than 3 minutes each.

Three judges will be chosen randomly from the audience.

Slam is judged on content and performance.

No props or accompaniment of any kind allowed, just you, your poem, and the microphone.
Everyone participates in the first round; advancement to the next round depends on score and/or number of participants.

Poetry Slam Poster
click here to see:  Pictures from the Library's April 2010 Poetry Slam 

For inspiration you may like to watch this film:

Documentary Film of the National Poetry Slam 

(Director's Cut), 14:08 minutes

The National Poetry Slam is the largest performance poetry festival in the world, and in 2005, 75 teams from the US, Canada and Europe decended on Albuquerque, New Mexico to compete for the title of National Poetry Slam Champion. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME. 

Poetry Slam Wrap

On Friday night, April 30, 16 people (10 teens and 6 adults) entered the Library’s first poetry slam. Slam master emcee, Ian Chandler, a student in the creative writing program at Endicott College, ran the event with tact and charm, and entertained us with a few of his own poems (soon to be published on a new poetry page on this blog). Volunteer Judges, Barbara Mahoney, Rodd Stockwell, and Rebecca Shea, scored without tire, and with friendly ears. Thank you Judges! And, many thanks to the members of the Library’s teen advisory board, the Teen Think Tank, for making cookies and rice krispy treats, and for helping to plan the event. Thanks to Josh Hunt for being the scorekeeper, and to Christopher Stockwell for being the timekeeper. Thank you to Nathan and Jeffery Mente, and Nate Shepard for selling refreshments. Thank you Kyle Crosman for being the thumbs up/thumbs down judge on whether a poem kept to the disaster theme, and for bringing the music. 


Dan Sklar, a professor at Endicott College, was the winning adult entrant, and J.D. Debski was the winning teen entrant.  Both winners received gift certificates to a local bookstore, provided through funds from the Friends of the Hamilton-Wenham Library.  The next Poetry Slam is penciled in the Library Calendar for Friday, October 1.

To see pictures from the Poetry Slam go to:  
Hamilton-Wenham Public Library Young Adult Facebook page 

Funds raised at the Teen Think Tank's refreshment table were sent to: Partners In Health for Haitian relief.

POETRY SLAM - Friday, April 30, 6 pm

Open to teens (ages 13-19), and to adults. There will be a winning teen entrant and a winning adult entrant. Winners will receive a prize.

Participation is limited to 20 contestants. Register in advance at the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library,

-or- send an email to Kim at kclaire@mvlc.org, with your name and phone number,  -or - call the Library at 978-468-5577.

RULES :

Bring 3 original poems no longer than 3 minutes each.  The theme for this Slam is :  Disaster: personal, natural, or otherwise.

Three judges will be chosen randomly from the audience. 

Slam is judged on content and performance.  No props or

accompaniment of any kind allowed, just you, your poem, and the microphone.

Everyone participates in the first round; advancement to the next round depends on score.
Poetry Slam Poster