Open Mic, Featured Poet Piece and The SLAM
This slam is an open slam - just throw your name into the hat by 8:30pm.
Slammers will be competing for points towards our next semifinal (April 10th) which brings them one step closer to qualifying for the Seattle National Slam Team.
Email slam@poetryfestival.org for more details.

“The most unique thing about Piece is herself. Her work is as unclassifiable as my own, she is Now, we are Now,” - Saul Williams.

“Piece is the best female poet on the scene.” - The Last Poets

Part emcee, part activist, part poet, part teacher, Laura Piece Kelley is much more than the sum of all her parts. Piece has been writing poetry since childhood. As a teenager she began performing her work publicly, participating in Seattle’s slam scene from its beginnings. In 2000 Piece competed for a spot on the Seattle National Slam team and earned her way to the National competition 2 years in a row. In 2005, she was crowned the Seattle Grand Slam Champion.Piece has been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and was cast in the production “Underground Poets Railroad”, a national tour and cinema verte style documentary by the Konwiser Brothers.

During her artistic voyage, Piece has shared the stage with some of the forefathers and mothers of spoken word as well as some of the biggest names in hiphop including: Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, The Roots, Common, Salt and Pepa, Doug E. Fresh, Zap Mama, Angela Davis, Gwendolyn Brooks and many, many more.