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Second Rodeo Slam LOVERS EDITION! Bring us your love poems, your break up poems, your platonic life partner poems! Join us for another Second Rodeo Slam on February 20th! Please bring your own mug to help out our gracious hosts at Second Rodeo Coffee.
5pm - Poets Reception - get delicious food and drinks from Second Rodeo Coffee!
5:30pm - Open Mic w/ harpist T. E. Hellewell
6pm - Featured poet Arisa White w/ harpist T. E. Hellewell
6:30pm - 3-2-1- Slam (3 timed rounds with a 10 second grace period and point deductions for going over time. Must be original work. No props, costumes or musical accompaniment. Judges are chosen at random from the audience and will judge poems 50% on content, 50% on delivery. There will be prizes but it's just for fun.)
7:30pm - end
Arisa White is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College. She is the author of Who’s Your Daddy, co-editor of Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart, and co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the second book in the Fighting for Justice Series for young readers. In collaboration with composer Jessica Jones, Post Pardon: The Opera marked Arisa’s debut as a librettist. Her poetry is widely published, and her collections have been nominated for both the NAACP Image Award and the Lambda Literary Award. She has also won the Per Diem Poetry Prize, the Maine Literary Award, the Nautilus Book Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, the Golden Crown Literary Award, and the Airlie Press Prize. The poem installation, look after your heart is permanently displayed at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. She is a Cave Canem fellow and serves on the Community Advisory Board for Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. arisawhite.com
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