Please join us for the Rhythmic Cypher Slam Team Benefit featuring the 2013 RC Slam Team, Jeanann Verlee & James Rossi
Saturday, May 25th, 7-10pm at St. Lawrence Arts & Community Center
Buy your tickets for ONLY $10 now at:
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(left to right back row) TLove, Sarah Lynn Herklots, Princess, Robin Merrill
(left to right front row) gaelle robin with RC alternate, Matthew Wellman)
is a slam poet who resides on the West End of Portland, Maine. Princess has been performing slam poetry since 2010. She is an advocate for women’s rights and empowering women to find thier voices to speak out. In her free time she enjoys writing short stories, spending time admiring the beauty of Maine and discovering more reasons to fall in love with life.
co-hosts the three-year running, weekly poetry open mic with musical accompaniment, Rhythmic Cypher (HOME OF THE 207 3-2-1- SLAM) in Portland, Maine which features local, regional and national performance poets, musicians and the occasional travelling circus.
In 2009, TLOVE competed at the National Poetry Slam and was the Individual Slam Champion for Portland. The same year, she co-produced her first chapbook, Butch Poets: A Redefining of Masculinity and a Reclamation of Butch with local jazz poet, Lady Zen.
TLOVE was recently published by Moon Pie Press in an anthology, Passion and Pride: Poets supporting Equality with New England Poet Laureates, Betsy Sholl, Bruce Spang, John-Michael Albert, Martin Steingesser and Annie Finch, Pat Smith Ranzoni, and many other great local poets.
is a Maine-based freelance writer/editor. Current clients include Bible League International, World Outreach International, and Tangerine Press, an imprint of Scholastic.
She has written five children’s books, all available through Scholastic. Two poetry collections have been published by Moon Pie Press. Her poems, short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in hundreds of publications, including The Cafe Review, Ledge Magazine, Margie, Pearl, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Stolen Island Review. Three of her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.
She has her MFA from Stonecoast and frequently leads creative writing workshops for writers of all levels and has featured at dozens of venues all over New England and New York.
is a performance poet and self-identified Crafty-Femme with a deep love of trees, poetry and fancy things. She represented Portland, ME in the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Denver in 2012 where she placed in the top 15.
She believes in poetry as a tool for transformation and healing. She works hard to dismantle her own shyness and fear of embarrassment by telling on herself for just about everything.
gaelle win robin is a queer writer & printer from a small town in the crossroads of rural maine invested in creating safer spaces, empowering alliances, and intentional communities. they have self-published three chapbooks: ad nauseum, harbors, and nightmares (split with kristina buckley). when gaelle is not playing the part of worker-owner at local sprouts cooperative, pressperson at poet rising project, and contributor at comehell.wordpress.com, they hide in the corners of time catching up on sleep, dreaming, climbing things, collecting trinkets and treasures, exploring small spaces, thinking about obscurities, huddling, feeling, observing, and praising natural light.
Please help us send our first-ever slam team to the 2013 National Poetry Slam in Boston in August.
Get your tickets now for our BIG fundraiser featuring us with special guest, Jeanann Verlee & music by James Rossi & Au Contraire.
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The Poet Rising Project is celebrating National Poetry Month by helping to bring you several amazing events. Be sure to mark your calendars now because you don’t want to miss any of these.
FREE and open to the public – please tip your artists and cafe workers
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$10 suggested donation includes cheesecake!!!
A “bagels and schmeaaah” mother discovers her daughter wasn’t a
practicing Jew. God forbid! The God Box is a hilarious and poignant
tale of family, faith, and the best cheesecake in the universe.
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FREE and open to the public/please tip your artists and servers
6pm workshop with Antonia Lassar: Antonia will draw on her years of theatre experience combined with her
performance poetry chops to create an active workshop focused on the
particular needs of the performing poet. She will lead a performance
workshop exploring how images in writing can become images in
performance. Participants may bring a poem (memorized or not) to
workshop, or participate without a particular work in mind.
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FREE and open to the public/please tip your artists and servers
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FREE and open to the public/please tip your artists and servers
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FREE and open to the public/please tip your artists and servers
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FREE and open to the public/please tip your artists and servers
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FREE and open to the public/$10 buy-in slam
Over $1500 in cash prizes
To pre-register email name, stage name, city traveling from, phone number and email to tnsmith00@gmail.com
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$10 in advance/$15 at door
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And we are extending the celebrating into May with these great events:
$10 in advance/$15 at door
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6pm workshop with Laura Brown Lavoie -
Thank you all so much for your support. Thanks to everyone who came down to Manchester to cheer us on and a HUGE thanks to our dedicated team who practiced their poet butts right off to take the 1!!
Thank you, Dylan Collins! Thank you, Toben Tighearnan!!! Thank you, Greg McKillop! Thank you, Sarah Lynn Herklots!!!
If you didn’t get to come down to Manchester…that’s ok. You can still help cause we still need more support to get us to the National Poetry Slam stage.
We need you to come to this great event we’ve put together just for you, RC Poetry Community because we LOVE YOU and can’t do this without you.
Two Slam Poet Champs for only $10! You can’t afford not to…
To buy your tickets NOW go to: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/360881
We expect this show to sell out so buying early is a good idea. 
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU!!!
Saturday, February 23rd
Silent Auction + raffle starting at 2pm
Show 7-10pm
Dobra Tea – 151 Middle Street, Portland, ME
Due to timing of the NorthBeast Regionals AND required time commitment to participate in the RC Slam Team both Sam Mercer and Zanne Langlois have stepped off the team. RC supports their decisions to do so for the reasons they have chosen.
According to RC Slam Rules for this team the poets who move up into these positions are decided 1st by who has made it to RC Team Practices out of those who made it into the RC Greatest Hits Top 40/final order after RC Greatest Hits Slam. (for those who know what all that means, that should make sense but if not please feel free to direct questions at the RC Slam Coach, T Love.
This means the poets to move up into the slots vacated by Sam and Zanne are:
Dylan Collins and alternate, TLove Smith
Congratulations, poet!
Give it up for your new RC Slam Team…
Toben Cooney-Callnan
Greg McKillop
Sarah Lynn Herklots
Dylan Collins
