The Final 12: 'Burque Come Choose Your Slam Team!!!

Mikaela asks:
So you know all about Slam, right?

• You know that judges are chosen randomly from the audience.
  
• You know Slam takes poetry out of the hands of snooty academics and back into the calloused hands of hard-working community members who know what they like when they hear it.
  
• You know that the 4 poets chosen Saturday night travel to Austin in August (what a great play name, by the way) to represent us at the National Poetry Slam competition, which we won in 2005.
• You know that you, too, can come Saturday and be a judge that chooses the team with the best shot to take our title back.

So what are you going to do about it?

I suggest humbly:

• Stop everything, and get to the NHCC Journal Theatre Saturday night at 7:30 pm!

It really is the best and biggest poetry show you'll see all year, especially as we have no Nationals to look forward to as we did in 2005 (unless you go to Austin, in which case, CHEER LOUD FOR US, OKAY????!!!!).

You don't have to take my (admittedly biased) opinion for it: Read Steven Allen's.

The following are your poet contenders:

Don McIver	Jasmine Cuffee	Tony Santiago
Jessica Lopez	Jamen	Stephen Smith
Sal Treppiedi	Jon Paskiewicz	Jerry Mondragon
Ben Boreman	Manuel Gonzales	James Altimirano

See you there!