SLAM POETRY VENUES
in Minneapolis (Fridays and Mondays once a month)
Here are some opportunities to see a poetry slam in Minneapolis:
Urban Speaks
on the last Friday of the month
at
Cafe Southside
3405 Chicago Ave South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
55407
website: http://www.cafe-southside.com/
Urban Speaks is an Open Mic–hosted the last Friday of every month by No Projection’s Antoine Duke located at Cafe Southside in South Minneapolis on 34th and Chicago. The open mic is from 7-9PM . Urban Speaks serves as an opportunity for poets , singers, song writers, dancers whatever form of expression calls you too the stage to perform and network with other artist .
Urban Speaks is a community event so it is open to the public and is free of cost it will take place on the last Friday of the month come kick it for an evening of spoken word, dance, song, and plenty more . . . . Each performer has 3-5 minutes to perform, so however many poems, songs, dance routines etc. you can fit in that time frame will determine how many poems, songs, dance routines etc. you can perform. Sign-up to perform starts at 6:30.
The Artists’ Quarter
408 St Peter Street
St.Paul, MN 55102
(651) 292-1359
website: http://www.artistsquarter.com/
Poetry Slams every last Monday of the month.
The next two dates are October 29th at 9:00 p.m. and November 26th at 9:00 p.m.
Some people call the Artists’ Quarter the best spoken word performance poetry venue in Minnesota. The St. Paul Slam Team has been crowned the 2010 National Poetry Slam Champions (winning for their second year in a row)! They all earned their way, starting by competing in this room
Doors open at 7pm – Slam begins at 8pm. Presented by Soap Boxing (www.soap-boxing.com) The Poetry Slam competition is open to anyone (18+) There three rounds of poetic battle and good times. Sign up between 7 and 8 pm.
SLAM POETRY 
We ♥ SLAM POETRY!!!!!
SLAM POETRY– Oscar Brown, Jr. “This Beach”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRFb-D1gYY0&feature=relatedSLAM POETRY?–Show
Tom Hanks Slam Poem on the sit-om Full House
Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfWIuymme50.
Taylor Mali
“Like Lilly Like Wilson”
Interview of Taylor Mali: What is “slam poetry”? “Undivided Attention” poem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpDE9tkgF4&feature=related
“Conviction”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0aDhqxiHg&feature=related
“What Teachers Make” Bowery Poetry Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuFnP5N2uA&feature=related
”The Miracle Workers”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMHSGmGtuo&feature=related
“Like Lilly Like Wilson”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshNfYWPlDg&NR=1
“Reading Aloud”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZzwIb6aPE&feature=related
Taylor Mali at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC Nov. 12, 2005 For more info. on this club, go here: http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
Hey, all you teacher wannabes, to look at Taylor’s website outlining his dream to convince 1,000 people to become teachers (because of his inspiration):
http://web.mac.com/tmali/iWeb/1,000%20New%20Teachers/The%20Mission.html
For a parody on Mali’s poem “What Teachers Make,” click HERE!
Interview of Taylor Mali: What is “slam poetry”? “Undivided Attention” poem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpDE9tkgF4&feature=related
”The Miracle Workers”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMHSGmGtuo&feature=related
“What Teachers Make” Bowery Poetry Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuFnP5N2uA&feature=related
For a parody on Mali’s poem “What Teachers Make,” click HERE!
“What Teachers Make” Def Poetry Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpog1_NFd2Q&feature=related
“Like Lilly Like Wilson”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshNfYWPlDg&NR=1
“Reading Aloud”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZzwIb6aPE&feature=related
“On Girls Lending Pens”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44sXwJgqUyc&feature=related
“I Could Be a Poet”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnOrrknTxbI&feature=related
“Totally like whatever, you know?” or also called “Conviction”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0aDhqxiHg&feature=related
“Labeling Keys”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbnQfFaxkno&feature=related
“Undivided Attention”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1MHVqAWGmI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JtwMKMOMQ&feature=related
“Proofreading”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ
“Where’s Your Favorite Place to Write?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_POEIhEXRI&feature=related
“Don’t Wait For Me” podcast
http://web.mac.com/tmali/Photo_site/Podcasts/Entries/2007/10/3_Work_in_progress.html
“The Apologia Of Hephaestus, 2007”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZW9HEer3o&feature=related
“Like Lilly Like Wilson”
Interview of Taylor Mali: What is “slam poetry”? “Undivided Attention” poem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpDE9tkgF4&feature=related
“Conviction”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0aDhqxiHg&feature=related
“What Teachers Make” Bowery Poetry Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuFnP5N2uA&feature=related
”The Miracle Workers”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMHSGmGtuo&feature=related
OTHER WELL-KNOWN SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS:
Gina Loring
“Somewhere there’s a poem”
Alicia Keys
“POW” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLk_Q3Cq2Ns
Rat Sack
“I’m losing you” See youtube
Bassey Ikpi
www.basseyworld.com/main.php (Bassey Ikpi’s personal site)
To watch Bassey “perform” her awesome poem “Homeward”
on Def Poetry, click on the link below:
Homeward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcOWR3uc0E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcOWR3uc0E&mode=related&search=
Diallo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj4C8riMsKI
Apology to My Unborn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyrHsYTveE&feature=related
“Sometimes Silence” (see youtube)
Poetri
Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZENZnjk7Vfw
Krispy Kreme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht9lB-hebJw&feature=relate
Eric Darby
Scratch & Dent Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTa4B7wQ_8
Oscar Brown, Jr.
“This Beach”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRFb-D1gYY0&feature=related
Gina Loring
“Somewhere There is a Poem”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PovgQ8jd0Q&feature=related
If you like spoken word, you might really this combination of music and spoken word. Here’s Shane Koyczan’s with Hannah Epperson’s music along with his poem “Remember How.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVJuA0jr6Y
Here’s another called “To This Day . . . for the Bullied and Beautiful”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIJGToXQwlM
Steve Coleman
“I want this poem”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3bbpj2hX6w&feature=related
To watch “perform” Robert Service’s chillin’ poem “The Cremation of Sam McGee” on youtube, click on the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBkuz1TlVc&mode=related&search=
For a commentary on Urgelt’s reading of this poem, click on the link below:
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