San Jose Poetry Slam Zoom Edition feat The Prodigy Truth

Poetry Center San Jose presents The San Jose Poetry Slam Zoom Edition featuring The Prodigy Truth

Come join us for Poetry from the comfort of your own home.

Sunday, July 28th

Room opens at 6:30 pm (California time)

Sign up list will be open from 6:30 to 7pm

Slam starts at 7pm

We are on Pacific Standard time, that is 3 hours earlier than east coast time and 3 hours ahead of Hawaii.

This is a free event.

Your host and Emcee will be Scorpiana Xlent!

Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

If you have never been to a Poetry Slam before, a poetry slam is a competition, imagine spoken word poetry as an olympic sport. The rules are simple:1) Poets must use their own poems. 2) poet must use only one poem per round. 3) no musical accompaniment. 4)no props. 5) there is a time limit of 3 minutes and 10 seconds. going over that will result in a time penalty. 6) poets must have video on while performing or there will be a 3-point penalty deduction.

This is a two-round slam, poets with the highest scores will move up to round two.

You can sign up to compete via the chat box in the zoom room.

If you're not competing, we could use judges.

Please remember to submit a quick audience survey to help us improve our logistics and content and report to our funders and sponsors. Here is the link to the survey: https://bit.ly/3M63VqH

Our feature will be The Prodigy Truth
Bio: T. Lydia McKinney "The Prodigy Truth" is black non-binary performing artist, writer, and domestic violence survivor based in Houston, Texas. They are a poetry slam finalist in both San Antonio (2022, 2023) and Houston, Texas (2022, 2024). T. Lydia attended Texas State University, where they majored in Communication Studies with a minor in Theatre. They previously worked for the State of Texas, having served as a child abuse investigator and support professional for the Texas School for the Blind. T. Lydia now serves a meditative guide and practitioner, full-time writer, and speech and debate consultant. They have been previously published in Querencia Press' Winter 2023 and Trans/ NB anthologies, Spotlight Poetry's Young, Gifted, and Black Anthology, Blunt Space Inc., and When the River Speaks magazine.

Poetry Center San José promotes and supports the literary arts in San José. Over the past four decades, PCSJ has brought hundreds of exceptional writers from around the country to read from their works and, in many cases, to conduct workshops for local writers. PCSJ is a nonprofit organization established in 1978. Its base of operations is in the charming turn-of-the-century Victorian home where the renown poet Edwin Markham once lived, now located in San José History Park. Poetry Center San José is a member supported organization and is funded, in part, by grants from Applied Materials Foundation, the City of San José's Office of Cultural Affairs, Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, SVCREATES, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and also supported in part by a SVCreates National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan grant. We also thank Brandenburg Family Foundation and Anne & Mark's Art Party for their generous giving

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