Elizabeth K Gordon (aka elizag) is a writer who was born in Queens, NY and grew up upstate and then in Broward County Florida. Her non-fiction narrative Triplet Boys, their Teen Parents and Two White Women who Tagged Along (CDD Books 2007) won an Indie Book Award. Read more – https://hvwg.org/poets/elizag/
Urban Guerilla Theatre is back at The Linda this coming Friday, March 16, celebrating all things woman with HERSTORY..A Celebration of Women Through Verse, Performance and Song. This month UGT will be hosted by Tenesha Smith. Here is the information from the folks that make it all happen at UGT, Mojavi and Leslie Michelle: Herstory: […]
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The next installment of Nitty Gritty Slam is tomorrow night at Valentines. We are back downstairs for the festivities and ready to rock! Who will come out on top at NGS #13? Will Shannon “In The Money” Shoemaker return to the spot? Will we see more perfect 10s? Will we see an upset from a
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Tonight, much to the chagrin of the official Slam bartender Kim, we were upstairs at Valentines to make room for a band in the usual poets’ spot. We were just as funky & even louder to carry our voices over the sound of electric guitars & drum…
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We were upstairs for this edition of the Nitty Gritty Slam, battling the band downstairs. The voices of the poets rose above it all and we were treated to some great new poetry and some old favorites both at the open mic and the slam. Before the slam began, and while Dain Brammage was rounding
NGS #12 Results – In The Money Again… Read More »
Last night at Valentines, we saw three new slam poets take the stage for the 11th installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam. We also had a surprise sacrificial poet in Thom Francis who made Mojavi mad with his hidden ability to slam. But before Dain Brammage took the stage as Slam Master, we had an
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At the last slam, NGS #10,Ben Golden took the top prize after not even making it to the second round at NGS #9. In second place was Dan Wilcox, another poet who has never seen the second round. Rounding out the top three was Elizag who, at the same time, was trying to win a
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This year PSi (Poetry Slam Inc.) held an online video slam competition. Poets who live their life as a woman could submit a video that was placed on poetryslam.com for a chance to win a free slot into the WoWPS (Women of the World Poetry Slam). The entered poets ralleyed their troops to vote them
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At some of the previous Slams here at Valentines, notably #9, the scores were so uniformly high, no matter what was performed, that it was like the judges were all clones, or smoking on the same crack pipe.
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A couple of weeks ago Mojavi said that this was going to happen. He said that we would be seeing a new face take first place and he was right. Ben Golden, who had been away in New Paltz for school finally made his way to the stage at NGS #9, but came up short
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Elizag, the winner of the last Nitty Gritty Slam is currently involved in a Video Slam on the Poetry Slam Inc. website with her poem “I Am Troy Davis”. As of this posting, she is in first place, but only by two votes. To cast your vote, go to this link, scroll to the bottom,
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Come out and join us for the next installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam at Valentines on Tuesday, January 17. At the last slam, NGS #9, Elizag took the top spot with Shannon “In The Money” Shoemaker coming in a very close second (.4 point difference, in fact). In third place was a new(er) face
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What a great way to kick off 2012! The poets gathered at Valentines this past Tuesday for the 9th edition of the Nitty Gritty Slam. After taking a little abuse about his pink sweater Mojavi hosted the open mic portion of the show that saw Jessica Layton, Daniel Nester, Tasha, a returning Dom Rizzo, Elizag,
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