Write About Now Podcast

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 well as a two-time member of the renowned Austin Poetry Slam. Roop has toured everywhere from Texas to Canada and everywhere in-between. She has shared stages with numerous artists from finger-painting kindergardeners to The Wailers. She is the author of three self-published chapbooks and one full length collection, And Then Came the Flood, published by Timber Mouse.

What is far more interesting about Lacey, however, is that she and her dog wear the same size pants. She also wears a key around her neck that unlocks the bottom of the ocean. Really, it does. She'll tell you what lives underneath, just ask.

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Lacey Roops’s performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX.

Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from dustmotes, Garmisch, Liam Stew, The Imposibulls

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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) at the 2014 National Poetry Slam. You can find her at poemsbydes.tumblr.com/

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Desireé Dallagiacomo’s performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX.

Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from dustmotes

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http://archive.org/download/DesMixdown/Des_mixdown.mp3

This week we present poets Clementine von Radics and Alex Dang

Clementine 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 poet from Portland, Oregon. He has four things in common with Hamlet: words, words, word, and an affinity for stabbing curtains.

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This performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX.

Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from Asthmatic, dustmotes, Grillo, Kozak94, Metaharmo, and Strad

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http://archive.org/download/ClementineAndAlexMixdown/Clementine%20and%20Alex_mixdown.mp3

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 “…one of the best independent poetry presses in the country”, Write Bloody Publishing. He is the author of five books of poetry and three children’s books. The New York Times calls his work, “…a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.” He is from Austin TX.

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Derrick Brown’s performance recorded at Revolution in Bryan, TX.

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Music from Asthmatic

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http://archive.org/download/DerrickBrown/Derrick%20Brown_mixdown.mp3

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 has has co-directed the Texas Grand Slam two years running, featured at venues and taught workshops nationwide and internationally, conducted long-term poetry programs at a local juvenile justice center, as well as released four books and a CD. In the fall, he will begin pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Louisiana State University. But for the moment, he is the president of Mic Check, a non-profit poetry and spoken word organization based in Brazos County, Texas. He loves it with all his heart. Also, he is convinced he has the Gulf inside him. He appreciates your concern and well-wishes, but swears he is OK. Really.

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Bill Moran’s performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX.

Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from Aviscerall and Breakmaster

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http://archive.org/download/good_ghost_bill_WANpodcast/good_ghost_bill_WANpodcast_01.mp3

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 Amiri Baraka. Coached the Neo-Soul slam team finishing 1st place in Group Piece Finals in 2012, coached the Austin Poetry Slam team leading them to 5th place in 2013 at the National Poetry Slam and coached the TheySpeak Poetry Slam team finishing top 8 in the world at Brave New Voices in 2014.

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 Ebony Stewarts’s performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX.

Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from Tab & Anitek - Sights & Sounds

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http://archive.org/download/EbonyStewartWANPoetry/EbonyStewart_mixdown.mp3

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 Poetry Slam team once in 2005. She made it to the finals stage in 2003 in Chicago and walked away with 6th place. She just got her MFA in poetry and non-fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her non-fiction piece “The Art of Reading Smoke” was nominated by Antioch to represent the school in AWP’s Intro Journal’s Project. She is a firefighter and lives in Austin, TX. She wants to bring the best of the literary world and the slam world together in one website, SWR, that will function like so many on-line literary journals, but better because spoken word is much more exciting! She has been writing a sonnet a day since July 4th, 2013.

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Suzy La Follette's performance recorded in Bryan, TX.

Arranged in Bryan, TX.

Music by dustmotes

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http://archive.org/download/SuzyLaFollette01/Suzy%20La%20Follette_01.mp3

BONUS EPISODE featuring Austyn Degelman.

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Austyn Degelman’s performance recorded at Revolution Bar in Bryan, TX

Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music from dustmotes.

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http://archive.org/download/AustynDegelmanMixdown/Austyn%20Degelman_mixdown.mp3

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. What? Really? Yeah: 

- 2012 National Group Champion w/ Austin Neo-Soul 

- 2010 Austin Poetry Slam Individual Champ 

- 2007 Southwest Shootout Individual Champion

He is the Slammaster/Executive Director of the Austin Poetry Slam, and a five-time member / three-time coach of teams representing Austin at Nationals. The author of 10 full length books of poetry, Danny's performance oriented work is frequently used by students in forensics competitions.

Danny is also a juggler and playwright associated with the Sky Candy Aerial Circus Arts School and has written two fully produced and well-received plays ("The Time Machine" in 2012 & "The Circus" in 2013), as well as his debut show with Smoke and Mirror's Cabaret in 2010, "Carnivalesque", which was also a great success as one of the first shows to premiere at Austin's HighBall.

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Danny's performance recorded at AvantGarden in Houston, TX

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Arranged in Bryan, TX

Music: 

Groovy Hip Hop by Bensound

Late Nights by Aviscerall

http://archive.org/download/DannyStrackWANPodcast/Danny_Strack_WAN_Podcast.mp3