It was a packed night at our new venue, In Tune Studio. We had an amazing feature from the young Gus Wood, a 2-time member of the Art Amok! Slam Team. This slam was our largest slam of the season, with nine poets competing. It was a nail-biting night, with Theresa Davis barely inching out a win. The results for the January 13 slam are:
Name
Total Score
Points Earned
Theresa Davis
56.7
9
Fit
56.5
8
Gabe Moses
56.3
7
Malika
56.0
6
Oak Morse
55.3
5
Marshall
54.2
4
Hillary
52.2
3
Schick
52.0
2
Freddy Krueger Mellencamp
47.0
1
The overall rankings are:
Name
Total Points
Gabe Moses
17
Marshall
12
Theresa Davis
9
Fit
8
Hillary
6
Malika
6
Nikki S. White
6
Oak Morse
5
Quez
4
Rico
3
David Schick
2
Karen G.
2
Molly Lampton
2
Freddy Krueger Mellencamp
1
Congratulations, poets! The next slam is Jan. 27, featuring Brooklyn-based poet Caroline Rothstein.
Friday, January 13, 2012
8:00 pm (sign up at 7:30)
In Tune Studio (Grant Park)
753-B Cherokee Ave (across from Zoo Atlanta)
It’s coming! Join us at our new venue for the first open mic/slam of 2012! I can now officially announce our feature: Gus Wood!
Gus is an Atlanta-based performance poet. He has been to the National Poetry Slam twice representing Art Amok! and competed at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam. He placed 3rd at the 2010 Southwest Shootout Individual Poetry Slam. Most recently, he took 2nd place in the IWPS Haiku Head to Head. His work has been featured in the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, the Atlanta-based poetry show Wish You Were Here, the Indiefeed Performance Podcast, and Borderline Poetry Journal (for which he recently received a Pushcart Prize nomination). He likes sword-fights, manatees, and smokes a pipe. You can find more of Gus at his website. If you can’t make it to Art Amok, check out Gus’s feature at the Redlight this Friday with Daniel Mandel, Garland Kelly, and Aviva and the Flying Penguins.
If you’re still trying to shake the holiday spirit, check out his poem “Dear Santa:”
Bring yourself, bring your mom, bring your mom’s mom. Sign up at the door for the Open Mic or the Slam. Anyone–poets, musicians, comedians–can sign up for the open mic; slots are appx. 5 minutes. The slam is a two-round poetry competition–check the rules on the “About Us” page. You can sign up for the Open Mic or the Slam, but not both.