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Australian Poetry Slam Youth (formerly The Rumble Youth Slam until 2018) is a youth poetry slam held annually by Word Travels alongside the Australian Poetry Slam. It is open to young artists between the ages of 12 and 18, and consists of a series of heats in which young poets are encouraged to practice as well as workshops allowing them to ...
Luka Lesson (Stage name for Luke Haralampou) is an Australian slam poet. He won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2011 [ 1 ] and has been described by Charlie Dark as "a young Saul Williams " [ 2 ] in reference to his composition and delivery of poetry in providing social commentary.
From 10 to 11 December 2016 Salzburg, Austria, held a world-record poetry slam competition (28 hours of classic slam poetry) and broke the so-far-record of Nuremberg, Germany (25 hours), by Michl Jakob. The winner of the competition (Friedrich Herrmann) scored one point better in the finals than the second ranked (Darryl Kiermeier).
Sara Mansour is an Australian lawyer, [1] writer, poet, and founder/artistic director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam. [2] [3] [4] The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular Poetry Slam in Australia [5] which offers an artistic outlet for the young people of Western Sydney to share their voices in a safe and inclusive environment.
The Bankstown Poetry Slam (BPS) was founded in 2013 by Sara Mansour and Ahmad Al Rady, [5] and held in the southwest Sydney suburb of Bankstown. Since its inception, the poetry slam has featured notable poets such as Omar Musa, Luka Lesson, Jazz Money, Rupi Kaur and Rudy Francisco. It has held grand slams at the Art Gallery of New South Wales ...
The Prize began in September 1980 when Peter Goldman handed out an anthology of poetry at the Mattara Festival. [ 1 ] This anthology prompted two lecturers at the University of Newcastle, Christopher Pollnitz and Paul Kavanagh, to seek funding for a poetry competition which paved the way for the first official Mattara Poetry Prize in 1981.
Monday will be an opportunity for the great underdogs of this Grand Slam to thrive even more as qualifier Learner Tien is back and lucky loser Eva Lys returns to court. Here’s today’s order of ...
Poetry Slam, Inc. was established in 1997 to oversee and enforce the rules of the National Poetry Slam. [1] Their mission is "to promote the performance and creation of poetry while cultivating literary activities and spoken word events in order to build audience participation, stimulate creativity, awaken minds, foster education, inspire ...