Four time semi-finalist at the National Poetry Slam with a MFA from Western Michigan University, Katie Daley stops by the Kzoo Slam with all of her imaginary friends.

Four time semi-finalist at the National Poetry Slam with an MFA from Western Michigan University, Katie Daley stops by the Kzoo Poetry Slam to take us to school.

Your host is taking the rest of 2024 off, but here are some bonus best-of poems for the holidays.

It’s an all musical episode this week with feature performer Criselda Perez and friends. . . with a couple tunes from Charlie Burgess thrown in.

Co-founder of the Denver poetry slam and member of six national slam teams, Katie Makkai features at the Kzoo Slam in 2003. Followed by some post-slam open-mic.  Learn the history of the Denver Poetry Slam from Katie on the Mile High Poetry Slam Podcast https://www.blogtalkradio.com/milehighpoetryslam/2017/07/28/episode-17--kate-makkai

Vancouver folk-hip-hop-poet-musician, C.R. Avery features at the Kzoo Poetry Slam in 2003.

Eirik “Big Poppa E” Ott  (NPS 1999 championship team member, HBO Def Poetry Jam performer, and self-proclaimed “Wussy Boy”, returns for his second feature at the Kzoo Poetry Slam in September of 2003.  

In part two you’ll hear the last poet of the slam, Eitan Kadosh, and Chicago poet Joel Chamara’s feature set from the summer of 2003.

Recorded in the summer of 2003, we kick things off with a head-to-head challenge slam between Todd Bannon and Beth Bullmer.  Dan Stevens volunteers to host the slam and our feature poet, Joel Chmara, performs the sacrificial poem.

Looks like we ran out of recording space on the disc at this show, but we managed to record a great open-mic session and the beginning of the slam. Hopefully the second half of Marya Summers’ set is still waiting to be discovered in the Kzoo archives.