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 | Saul Williams/Team New York City
Saul's appearance in SlamNation helped land him the starring role in the movie Slam which he co-wrote and which won the Grand Jury Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival as well as the Camera d'Or at Cannes. He has also appeared with Kevin Spacey in the film K-Pax, on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and is a recurring character on the UPN television show "Girlfriends". He has three published books and 2 music CDs Amethyst Rock Star and Saul Williams, and his poetry is part of the curriculum at universities and high schools across the US. |
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 | Taylor Mali/Team Providence
Taylor has won the National Poetry Slam Team Championships four times. Since putting his teaching career on hold, he has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, won Best One-Man Show at the US Comedy Arts Festival, and currently makes his living entirely as a spoken-word and voiceover artist. He is the spokesman for teaching's nobility, the poet laureate of passion in the classroom. |
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 | Beau Sia/Team New York City
Beau Sia was one of the original cast members in Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam, on Broadway, a 2003 Tony Award winner. He also appeared in It's Showtime at the Apollo, HBO's Def Poetry Jam, the film Slam and has two spoken-word CD's Attack! Attack! Go! and Dope and Wack andthe book of poetry A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge. |
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 | Marc Smith/Chicago SlamMaster
In 1986, at Chicago's Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Marc Smith (So What!) started a Sunday night poetry show called the Uptown Poetry Slam. That show and the movement it inspired have revolutionized how poetry is presented and received in public performance. He is the "Slampapi," the father of the slam and the genesis of performance poetry. His book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Slam Poetry is the Bible of the what, why and how this international movement came into existence and evolved. |
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 | Patricia Smith /Team Boston
Patricia Smith received national notoriety after she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for her work as a columnist for The Boston Globe and it was discovered that some of her stories were fabricated.The nomination was subsequently withdrawn, and she was demonized by the press. She had won the National Individual Slam Championships four times. |
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 | Jessica Care Moore/Team New York City
Jessica Care Moore is an internationally celebrated poet. She is CEO of Moore Black Press and has published poets Saul Williams and Sharrif Simmons. She has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and is well known for her history making appearances on It's Showtime at the Apollo. |
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 | Daniel Ferri /Team Berwyn, IL
Dan holds several Master's degrees, has been a potter, a fork lift truck driver and is currently a 6th grade school teacher. Dan is also a regular commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He retired from slam competition in 1999. He lives in Lombard, Illinois with his wife Meriel, who is a musician, and his daughter Rosa. |
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Brian Comiskey/Team Boston A poet and roofer, Brian has been on Team Boston many times. In 1998, he won third place in the Individual Championships of the Austin National Poetry Slam. |
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 | Michael Brown/ Boston SlamMaster
Author of three books of poetry Michael has performed in the US National Slam Championships several times and organized the 1992 Nationals in Boston. He is the General Secretary of the Poetry Olympics, first held in Stockholm in 1998, co-director of The Culture of Peace, an international exchange of poets and artists, and is founder ofwww.slamnews.com. His day job is Professor of Communications at Mount Ida College, Newton. |
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 | Sean Shea/Team Providence
Sean has been an instructor of Electronic Music at Brown University and a campaign manager for Lt. Governor of Rhode Island. He currently has an EP of swing music with the Canadian group "Combomatic." |
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Jack McCarthy/Team Boston
Check out Jack's homepage |