Special Event! – March 2nd – Worcester Youth Slam “Last Chance” Event w/ Special Guests KEN ARKIND & ELI LYNCH from DENVER!
Hey Everybody!
The regular season for the Clark / Worcester Youth Poetry Slam has come to an end! 7 teen poets are qualified for our March 26th Grand Slam Youth Finals.
We’ve decided to offer 2 more teens a shot at competing to be on this years team. We’re going to have a special “Last Chance” poetry slam. 2 rounds for teens who’d like to compete, top two scoring poets over 2 rounds makes it into the finals list. Poets who have already earned points this season will not be allowed to slam. This competition is open to those who’ve not yet qualified.
MARCH 2nd, 7-9:30pm
WCUW FM Front Room, 910 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610
Open Mic, Last Chance Slam, Musical Performance &
Another added bonus for this evening!
2 amazing traveling poets are going to be in town and we want to welcome them to a Worcester Stage! Ken Arkind coordinates the Denver Youth Poetry Slam. One of the teen poets he works with has been given permission by his school to go on a week long vacation tour, and then write about his experience for a class project. The 3-0-3 area code is very close to the 5-0-8′s hearts, so we’re sponsoring this special event to welcome them and see how they do in Colorado. KEN ARKIND is a National Poetry Slam Champion and full time touring artist who has performed his work in almost all of the Lower 48, Hawaii and Canada. With Panama Soweto he is one half of The Dynamic Duo, The nations most highly booked Spoken Word act for the past 2 years. He has been featured in 
The Documentaries SPIT!, Slamplanet, CBS, NBC and Borders.com’s Open Door Poetry series alongside U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. He was a member of the highly influential Spilljoy Ensemble tour, a collection of The country’s premiere young Spoken Word Artists including Danny Sherrard, Jon Sands and Shira Erlichman and is currently the Project Coordinator for The Denver Minor Disturbance Youth Poetry Slam, a workshop and reading series that works with Denver youth poets between the ages of 13 and 19 throughout the Metro area. A regular fixture in The Denver Music Scene he has opened for acts like The Flobots, Gil Scott Heron, Devotchka, Sage Francis, Cloud Cult, Pulitzer Prize Winner Yusef Komunyaka and NPR’s Amy Goodman. His work has been published in numerous literary anthologies and Journals across the country and he has been arrested for being loud on several occasions. ELI LYNCH is a two time member of 
the Denver Minor Disturbance Youth Poetry Slam Team (’09, ’10), including the team that rocketed to finals stage at last year’s Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival. Eli’s powerful solo performance was instrumental in helping his team win their semi final match. He also won the Emcee Olympics Side Event at the Youth Tournament. He’s a student at Jefferson County Open High School and this is his first national tour!
PLUS!!!!
Greg McKillop aka Speaker for the Dead will be playing an acoustic music set. We’ll also offer an open mic for those who’d like to share their work.
Hosted by Youth Slam Director Alex Charalambides
$5 suggested donation at the door. (if money’s an issue, please contact me and maybe we can work some kind of volunteer exchange deal).
Please spread the word. Ken and Eli are amazing poets who don’t get a chance to visit all that often. They’re coming a long way, and we really want to hear them and show them our East Coast Hospitality.
