There Will Be Words presents There Will Be Verse, a limited edition poetry slam series at Stardust Video & Coffee.
Winner gets $20.
Eight poets will get the chance to compete in a head-to-head slam where the ENTIRE audience judges the poetry slam, with two poets to help calibrate the slam.
Our feature this month is Caitlin Doyle
Caitlin Doyle’s work has appeared in numerous publications here and abroad, including The Atlantic, Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, and Cork Literary Review. Her poems have also been published in several anthologies, including The Best Emerging Poets of 2013, The Southern Poetry Anthology, and Best New Poets 2009. Caitlin received her MFA in Poetry from Boston University, where she held the George Starbuck Fellowship in Poetry. Her awards and fellowships include the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship through the Bread Loaf Writers’ conference, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, the Amy Award through Poets & Writers, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Writer-In-Residence fellowships at the James Merrill House and the Jack Kerouac House. She has held Writer-In-Residence teaching positions at Penn State, St. Albans School, and Interlochen Arts Academy.
Sign ups start at 8:00.
Slam starts at 8:30.
For more information on the format of There Will Be Verse, check this note out - https://www.facebook.com/notes/there-will-be-words/announcement-there-will-be-verse/774902599226985
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