This week we present the Southern Fried Poetry Slam Winners.Southern Fried is a 23 year arts festival celebrating poetry, spoken word and slam. The name alone evokes a sense of home cooked meals and good ol’ Southern food, and Southern Fried s

Write About Now featuring Tova Charles & Zai Sadler!

Jul 16th, 2015

This week we present Tova Charles and Zai Sadler.Nova and Zai are from Austin, Texas. You can find them online at http://tovacharlespoetry.tumblr.com/ and http://zaispitstruth.bandcamp.com/@WANPoetrywriteaboutnowpoetry.comyoutube.com/WANpo

Write About Now featuring Element 615!

Jul 9th, 2015

This week we present Element 615.Hailing from Texas, he speaks in a cadence that does not break down across barriers of race, age or geography. Soulful stanzas echoing something between Coltrane and Cyrano, Element 615 is unapologetically roma

Write About Now featuring Button Poetry!

Jul 3rd, 2015

This week we present Button Poetry.Sam Cook, Dylan Garity, and Hieu Minh Nguyen are from Button Poetry. Button produces and distributes poetry media, including: video from local and national events, chapbooks, collaborative audio recordings, s

Write About Now featuring Neil Hilborn!

Jun 25th, 2015

This week we present poet Neil Hilborn.Neil Hilborn is a College National Poetry Slam champion, and a 2011 graduate with honors from Macalester College with a degree in Creative Writing. His debut full-length book, Our Numbered Days, is now av

Write About Now featuring Pages Matam!

Jun 18th, 2015

This week we present poet Pages Matam.Pages Matam is a Cameroonian artist residing in the D.C. metropolitan area. He is a Write Bloody author, Callaloo fellow, 2014 National poetry slam champion and winner of Beltway Poetry Quarterly's Best N

Write About Now featuring Zach Caballero!

Jun 12th, 2015

This week we present poet Zach Caballero.Poet. Organizer. Energy Enthusiast. Mover & Shaker. Professional Optimist. Bokononist. Co-Founder of Spitshine Poetry. Law Student South Texas College of Law. @CabbythePoet@WANPoetrywriteaboutnowpoet

Write About Now featuring Arati Warrier!

Jun 4th, 2015

This week we present poet Arati Warrier.Arati Warrier was a member of the 2013 and 2014 They Speak Austin Youth Slam Teams and has been a member of UT Spitshine Poetry Slam since the fall of 2012. She represented UT, Austin at the national col

Write About Now featuring FreeQuency!

May 28th, 2015

This week we present poet FreeQuency.Born in Kenya in 1991 as Mwende Katwiwa, FreeQuency is a spoken word artist living, loving and working in New Orleans, LA since 2009. The daughter of two lifelong educators, FreeQuency was raised believing

Write About Now featuring Kevin Burke!

Apr 24th, 2015

This week we present poet Kevin Burke.Kevin W. Burke was born and raised in the aged suburban stretch, industrial parks, and haunted forests of the Chicago Southland. He has found work in a grocery store, animal shelter, power plants, scaffol

Write About Now featuring Lacey Roop!

Apr 16th, 2015

This week we present poet Lacey Roop.Lacey Roop is a nationally acclaimed spoken word artist. In 2011, she placed 6th at the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS), has been the Austin, TX Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS) representative as

Write About Now featuring Desireé Dallagiacomo

Apr 9th, 2015

This week we present poet Desireé Dallagiacomo.Desireé Dallagiacomo is the 3rd ranked lady poet at the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam, 3rd ranked poet at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam. 3rd ranked (as a member of Slam new Orleans)

Write About Now featuring Clementine von Radics and Alex Dang!

Apr 2nd, 2015

This week we present poets Clementine von Radics and Alex DangClementine von Radics is the founder of Where Are You Press. Her latest book, "Mouthful of Forevers" is currently the #1 New Release by a Female Poet on Amazon.Alex Dang is a poe

Write About Now featuring Derrick Brown!

Mar 26th, 2015

This week we present poet Derrick Brown.Derrick Brown is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. He is a former Paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne and is the president of one of what Forbes and Filter Magazine call “…on

Write About Now featuring Good Ghost Bill!

Mar 19th, 2015

This week we present poet Good Ghost Bill.Bill Moran (Good Ghost Bill) was a proud member of the 2011-2013 Austin Poetry Slam national teams, as well as the 2012 & 2013 Austin Poetry Slam Champion and 2013 Southern Fried Haiku Champion. He ha

Write About Now featuring Ebony Stewart!

Mar 12th, 2015

This week we present poet Ebony Stewart.Ebony Stewart aka The Gully Princess is all things black, woman, and magic. She is the only adult female three-time Slam Champion in Austin Texas. Has shared stages with Buddy Wakefield and the late Ami

Write About Now featuring Suzy La Follette!

Mar 5th, 2015

This week we present poet Suzy La Follette. Suzanne La Follette hates writing bios about herself in third person but does it anyway. She spent several years doing the slam poetry thing. Was on the Flagstaff, AZ team twice and the Austin Po

BONUS EPISODE featuring Austyn Degelman!

Mar 2nd, 2015

BONUS EPISODE featuring Austyn [email protected]/user/WANpoetryfacebook.com/WANpoetrywanpoetry.tumblr.com/Hosted by Davis Land.davisland.infoAustyn Degelman’s performance recorded at Revolution Bar in Bryan, TXArranged i

Write About Now featuring Danny Strack!

Feb 26th, 2015

The first episode of the Write About Now Poetry Podcast!This week we present poet Danny Strack. Danny Strack has been performing poetry live for over a decade. He holds slam championship titles at national, regional and city levels.

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