2008 Poetry Slam

Our poetry slam will be Friday, Apr 11th at Ruta Maya starting at 9:30pm. Cash prizes will be awarded. If you are a registered poet and would like to slam, please email aipfinfo@aipf.org.

About slam: Slam is a competitive event where each poet has three minutes to perform a poem of their own creation with no props, no musical accompaniment- only the sound one can make with their own body. Points are deducted if the poets goes over three minutes. Each poem is scored Olympic style 0.0 to 10.0 by five judges chosen randomly from the audience. These judges may have never heard a poem read aloud before, or they may have been writing poetry for years. Slam is about the idea that everyone's opinion about a poem is valid. The job of the judges is to score the points based on their own opinion. The audience's job is to try and influence the judges. The Slam is held in three rounds and the person with the highest score in the last round is the winner.