Seattle Poetry Slam

The Seattle Poetry Slam is Every Tuesday Night at Re-bar!

 

The Seattle Poetry Slam

The Seattle Poetry Slam has a new home at RE-BAR! Seattle Poetry Slam hosts a spoken word blow-out unlike anything you've seen before! Join a supportive community that LOVES the word - written AND spoken. Each week you will see an OPEN MIC, A FEATURED POET and A SLAM.


  • 1114 Howell Street, Seattle.
  • www.rebarseattle.com

    • The World: Before & After-an album created by poets of the Seattle Slam Community produced by Steven Clough

    To preview, listen and download via iTunes click HERE
    The World: Before & AfterAs read on CDbaby.com:"What happens when thirteen of the nation’s most renowned poets, including the likes of Buddy Wakefield, Danny Sherrard, Anis Mojgani (heard here) and Matt Gano, collaborate on an album set to a score by award-winning musician and producer Steven Clough is nothing short of genius. In an album destined to be unlike anything you’ve heard before, The World: Before & After features poems inspired by the artists’ views on a range of worldly topics. All royalties from sales of this album will be donated to support community-based arts programs. From multiple International and National Slam Poetry champions, to internationally touring artists, an internationally traveling Cultural Envoy of the Arts for the U.S., to a poet invited to the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama and the man called a “rock star” of the poetry world by The Boston Globe, The World: Before & After is a collaboration between some of the world’s best poets."
     Featuring some of Seattle's favorite poets: Danny Sherrard, Matt Gano, Anis Mojgani, Roberto Ascalon, Daemond Arrindell, Karen Finneyfrock, Jodie Knowles, Tara Hardy, Jack McCarthy, Greg Brisendine, Rajnii Eddins, Buddy Wakefield and Amber Flame.


    2011 Seattle National Slam Team

     

    Seattle's 2011 National Slam Team consists of Sara Brickman, Maya Hersh, Mary Lambert & Rose Estelle McAleese.

     

    2011 Seattle National Slam Team

     

     

    Congratulations to the 2011 team and the Grand Slam Champion: Mary Lambert!

    Mary Lambert performing at the Grand Slam

    Seattle Slam On NPR

     

    Seattle Poets: Daemond Arrindell, Ela Barton, Greg Bee, & Maya Hersh featured on Weekday with Steve Scher on KUOW 94.9 Seattle's NPR. Listen Here!

    The Slam

    THE SLAM is a performance poetry competition where each poet has a 3 min. time limit to perform a poem, earning a score between 0 and 10 awarded by randomly-picked judges from the audience. Scores are based on content, originality and performance. The winning poets get prizes and a chance at being on the Seattle team that will challenge 72 other teams from cities across the U.S. and Canada at the National Poetry Slam. Competition for a place on the team is fierce, making Seattle a top national contender.

     

    Seattle teams consistently make the semi-final round and have repeatedly made the final round at Nationals. Two years in a row, a Seattle Slam team member has won the title of National Poetry Slam Indie Champion. In 2006 it was, Anis Mojgani, and in 2007 it was Danny Sherrard.

    While the slam can sometimes get heated and competitive, this community always holds true to the famous words of Slam Poet Allan Wolff:

    THE POINT IS NOT THE POINTS,
    THE POINT IS THE POETRY

     

    How Can YOU get on the Mic?

    Sign-ups are from 8-8:30pm. Poets have two options: the Open Mic OR the SLAM. There are 6 spots available on the OPEN MIC and 8 spots for the SLAM.
    If there are more sign ups than slots, readers are drawn lottery style for fairness.

    What Are the Rules?

    Open Mic readers are encouraged to keep their performance to 3 minutes or less and can perform one piece.
    Poets must perform their own original work. No props, costumes or musical accompaniment. Poets have 3 min. (with a 10 second grace period) to perform one poem. After that, points are deducted