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WORD In Motion |
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supporting tomorrow’s artists...today! |
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The St. Louis |
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Poetry Slam is an audience judged poetry competition where the best poet of the evening wins up to $100! It takes place EVERY Wednesday at Rhythm & Brews Coffeehouse; 541 Grand @ Washington. $5 cover |
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a poetry slam is a competition where a poet performs a poem of their own creation in three minutes or less. Props and costumes are not allowed. Five random audience judges score the poem by holding up score cards ranging from 0 being the worst poem and 10 being the best. |
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conceive it! believe it! achieve it! |
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poetry slam was created in the mid |
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eighties by a construction worker |
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named mark smith. (so what) it got |
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its start at a bar in chicago called |
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the green mill. today, the poetry |
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slam has grown quickly to include |
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an annual national competition. st. |
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louis has been sending a team to |
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the national competition since 2000. |
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last year, st. louis hosted the national |
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competiton and this year, st. louis |
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sent nicole` mondaine to the indy |
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world poetry slam, and u. city high |
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sent a team to the youth nationals. |
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this year’s st. louis poetry slam team |
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will be selected on june 1st at the |
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grand slam competition. for more |
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information, call 314-776-7370. |