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"Shrinking Women" is a poem by Lily Myers. Myers recited it at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational; the video was subsequently reposted by Button Poetry and HuffPost, where it went viral. The video of this performance had been viewed more than five million times by 2016. [1]
Poetry Slam, Inc., holds several national and international competitions, including the Individual World Poetry Slam, the National Poetry Slam and The Women of the World Poetry Slam. The current (2013) IWPS champion was Ed Mabrey. [15] Ed Mabrey was the only three-time IWPS champion in the history of the event. [16]
Sister Outsider is a poetry duo that specializes in slam poetry or spoken word. [1] Dominique Christina and Denice Frohman are both Women of the World Poetry Slam Champions. . Their collaboration has brought them success over the last two years as they have been to over 90 universities, colleges, conferences, and many other spaces across the United S
However, as of 2020, participants do not need to be PSi members and the name of the competition is now "Womxn of the World Poetry Slam". [1] In 2018, Poetry Slam, Inc.'s voting body elected to cease its three major 2019 poetry slams including WoWPS. [6] The WoWPS resumed in 2020 with a new official website. [7]
Stacey Waite is a poet—focusing on both slam and written verse—who also works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. [1] Waite's poetry often explores themes of the body—of the intersections of gender, sexuality, place and relationships. She has published four collections of poetry over the past ...
Her performance of a poem called "Like Totally Whatever" won the 2015 National Poetry Slam Championship and received mainstream media coverage. [1] [2] Lozada-Oliva enrolled in New York University's MFA program for Creative Writing in fall 2017. As of spring 2019, she was also teaching a class there. [9]
In 2016, Johnson co-founded The Root Slam with Terisa Siagatonu, Natasha Huey, Isa Borgeson, Gabriel Cortez, and Jade Cho. In its first year, Root Slam sent an all-women-of-color team to the 2017 National Poetry Slam, and placed fifth in the nation out of 80 teams.
Sabrina Benaim (born November 30, 1987, in Toronto, Canada) is a writer, performance artist, and slam poet. [1] Benaim was a winner of the 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam. [2] She is best known for her poem "Explaining My Depression To My Mother." [3]