September 9th, 2011
By all means, we could not have missed the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where the first poetry slam ever in New York City was held in 1989, and 22 years later it has become part of the cultural history of NYC, still going strong. Today's Nuyorican Poetry Slam is the result of their tradition of talented hosts, amazing performers and heart-stopping performances. Each one has helped to develop the legendary Poetry Slam reputation that is associated with the Cafe around the world. If you want to learn who these people have been, the years they participated, their contact info & lots more, please see Verbs on Asphalt, the authorized multimedia website that documents the whole story of Slam at the Nuyorican from the beginning.
The Friday night slam is known to be a sensational show every single week. It starts at 10pm, we went there at 9pm and the line in front of the entrance was long already, and within an hour just got longer and longer.
The Opening act was an impressive music/poetry duet by The Robin and the Lady Poet (Robin Andre and Erica Miriam Fabri):
The policy at the Nuyorican does not allow film recording, so we will not be able to show video extracts.
Instead here is some info about Slamming at the Nuyorican, taken from the website:
"Poetry Slam @the Nuyorican is truly poetry of and by the people. Winners of any Nuyorican Poetry Slam are chosen entirely by our varied audience members; a continual stream of changing faces, ages and backgrounds that make up New York City on any given night. Audience judges are not required to have any special skills or history and that's what always makes our slam so exciting and unpredictable.
Many Poetry Slammers have begun their careers in either the Wednesday Night Slam Open or the Open Room. Some will come back and compete many times before winning a slam, so keep on coming! 2008 National Team member, Rico Steal, began his career at the Nuyorican in the Open Room and didn't quit until he was slamming on Friday Nights!
Winner of Wednesday Night Slam Open is eligible to compete in a Friday Night Slam. If you win a Friday Night Slam, you are eligible to compete in one of the five Semi-Final Poetry Slams that happen throughout our Slam season.
If you win a Semi-Final slam, you will become one of five poets to compete in our yearly Grand Slam Finale, which generally happens in April. The winner of that slam takes the Grand Slam Champion title for that year and immediately qualifies to be on our National Team. The rest of our yearly National Team comes out of three Run-Off Slams, which happen after the Grand Slam Finale. We send these team members to compete yearly in the National Poetry Slam.
Spotlight Poets are featured before the Slam each Friday Night and are curated by the Nuyorican SlamMaster.
Although we could not record the event, among the Nuyorican's Facebook posts we found this link, where you can check out the most notable moments.
Photos: BlyWorx
By all means, we could not have missed the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where the first poetry slam ever in New York City was held in 1989, and 22 years later it has become part of the cultural history of NYC, still going strong. Today's Nuyorican Poetry Slam is the result of their tradition of talented hosts, amazing performers and heart-stopping performances. Each one has helped to develop the legendary Poetry Slam reputation that is associated with the Cafe around the world. If you want to learn who these people have been, the years they participated, their contact info & lots more, please see Verbs on Asphalt, the authorized multimedia website that documents the whole story of Slam at the Nuyorican from the beginning.
Before the event we managed to catch Mahogany Browne, the host and curator of the Friday Night Nuyorican slams for a brief talk in front of the Cafe.
Video interview coming soon!
Video interview coming soon!
This time the evening was dedicated to the homecoming for the Nuyorican National Slam Team who came in 2nd at the Championship, so Big Congratulations! - Carvens Lissaint, Soulfull Jones, Tre G, Witness, Brian Omni Dillon and Mahogany Browne (Coach).
The Opening act was an impressive music/poetry duet by The Robin and the Lady Poet (Robin Andre and Erica Miriam Fabri):
The policy at the Nuyorican does not allow film recording, so we will not be able to show video extracts.
Instead here is some info about Slamming at the Nuyorican, taken from the website:
"Poetry Slam @the Nuyorican is truly poetry of and by the people. Winners of any Nuyorican Poetry Slam are chosen entirely by our varied audience members; a continual stream of changing faces, ages and backgrounds that make up New York City on any given night. Audience judges are not required to have any special skills or history and that's what always makes our slam so exciting and unpredictable.
Many Poetry Slammers have begun their careers in either the Wednesday Night Slam Open or the Open Room. Some will come back and compete many times before winning a slam, so keep on coming! 2008 National Team member, Rico Steal, began his career at the Nuyorican in the Open Room and didn't quit until he was slamming on Friday Nights!
Winner of Wednesday Night Slam Open is eligible to compete in a Friday Night Slam. If you win a Friday Night Slam, you are eligible to compete in one of the five Semi-Final Poetry Slams that happen throughout our Slam season.
If you win a Semi-Final slam, you will become one of five poets to compete in our yearly Grand Slam Finale, which generally happens in April. The winner of that slam takes the Grand Slam Champion title for that year and immediately qualifies to be on our National Team. The rest of our yearly National Team comes out of three Run-Off Slams, which happen after the Grand Slam Finale. We send these team members to compete yearly in the National Poetry Slam.
Spotlight Poets are featured before the Slam each Friday Night and are curated by the Nuyorican SlamMaster.
Although we could not record the event, among the Nuyorican's Facebook posts we found this link, where you can check out the most notable moments.
Photos: BlyWorx
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