This is the first anthology sponsored and assembled by Poetry Slam, Inc., the non-profit organization that creates the annual National Poetry Slam and Individual World Poetry Slam. Contains the print version of over 50 poems performed in some capacity at the 2002 National Poetry Slam in Minneapolis, MN and an audio CD with 23 recorded versions of other poems performed before screaming, celebrating audiences. This is NOT your Aunt Bertha's poetry reading! Poems by Lucy Anderton, Corrina Bain, Angela Boyce, Michael Brown, Corbet Dean, Mack Dennis, Daphne Gottlieb, Ragan Fox, Ray McNiece, Michael Salinger, Danny Solis, Buddy Wakefield, Tazuo Yamaguchi and many more. There is something here for every taste. Some strong language in some poems.

Freedom To Speak National Poetry Slam 2002

Scott Woods

The Wordsmith Press

84 pages, perfect bound. This book contains almost all of Buddy's most popular performance pieces [through 2004] with intros on the creative process, biographical material that helps us understand what instigated some of the poems and how his thought process has evolved over time. It is always full of Buddy's warm sense of humor, his biting criticism and his big, big heart. As much as those who know Buddy love him, that doesn't stop him from making us really mad in one poem, making us laugh really hard in a dozen others, and it doesn't stop us from alternately laughing and crying in a few more. To read Buddy's book is to sit with him in the front car of the roller coaster. And you'll hear him taunt you for holding onto the bar when he throws his hands in the air. - Steve Marsh, The Wordsmith Press, Executive Director of Poetry Slam International

Some They Can't Contain

Buddy Wakefield

This is a fine collection of Ray's best performance poems. X. J. Kennedy, the Lamont Poetry Prize Winning Poet writes, "Ray McNiece is an adept reader of his own moving, clearly imaged poems, a skilled performer who does the English language justice." Pick up a copy of this book and find out why Yevgeny Yevtushenko asked Ray along on his most recent poetry tour of his native Russia. Ray's voice is a genuine, strong, authentic working class representation of his times and his generation.

The Bone-Orchard Conga

Ray McNiece

Lifelines, A World War II Story of Survival and Love, is a most remarkable collection of stories and recollections by Jack and Leda Miller as captured and rendered as individual poems by Terry Wooten. Jack and Leda were married during World War II shortly before Jack was shipped to the Philippines where he and thousands of other GIs were captured by the Japanese. Jack is a survivor of what has come to be called the Bataan Death March. These poems tell the story of what it was like as a Japanese POW for Jack, and what it was like for Leda to wait for him at home. Powerful and poignant.

Lifelines, A World War II Story of Survival and Love

Terry Wooten

This is the third in the series of poetry slam anthologies Poetry Slam, Inc. puts out from its annual National Poetry Slam, this one from NPS 2004 in St. Louis. Over 50 poems and, for the first time, essays in this volume. Poems by Mike Henry, Roger Bonaire-Agard, Jim Dwyer, Rose Smith, Corbet Dean, Lucy Anderton, Adriana E. Ramirez and many more. For the first time, essays about the state of poetry slam and poetics by Taylor Mali, Scott Woods, Phil West and Jeremy Richards. Some stong language used in some poems. Some strong subject matter.

Poems From the Big Muddy, the 2004 National Poetry Slam

Multiple

The second in Terry Wooten's series of living oral history poem sets, Child of War contains the recollectons of Hannie Kuieck as a young girl before, during and after the Battle of Arnhem in Holand, the worst Allied defeat of the war and the largest airborne battle in history. As Peter R. Brumlik, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs writes: "Like the living victims of the holocaust, who fade into memory as the years pass, these poems are in fact survivors as well." 83 pages with color photgraphs perfect bound.

Child of War (Oorlogskind)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Importance of Being Ernest

Comics & Graphic Novels

Ernest Cline

Graphic Novels

in her 3rd collection of poetry, Aptowicz celebrates all the ups and downs of being a performing poet with a day job

Working Class Represent

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Oh, Terrible Youth - Poetry by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

Reading OH, TERRIBLE YOUTH is like uncovering some fantastic lost episode of "Square Pegs" written by Sharon Olds...
Ernest Cline, author of The Geek Wants Out and Fanboys

In her fourth and latest collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz showcases the sharp wit, self-deprecating pathos and unapologetic brashness which have made her books consistently some of the best selling within the poetry slam movement. In this eclectic compilation, Aptowicz ruminates on the trials and tribulation of her tween self ("My Elementary School Confessions"), her unapologetic high school geekiness ("The Secret Language of Nerds") and all the melodramatic yet sincere love verses she ultimately penned in vain ("On Reading Old Unrequited Love Poems"), among other inspired topics. This plump volume of new work commiserates and celebrates all the wonder, terror, banality and comedy which is the long journey to adulthood.

Oh, Terrible Youth

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Books by The Wordsmith Press

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Freedom To Speak National Poetry Slam 2002

Some They Can't Contain

The Bone-Orchard Conga

Lifelines, A World War II Story of Survival and Love

Poems From the Big Muddy, the 2004 National Poetry Slam

Child of War (Oorlogskind)

The Importance of Being Ernest

Working Class Represent

Oh, Terrible Youth

Lifelines, A World War II Story of Survival and Love