DelaWhere Open Mic & Slam News

Hopefully everyone enjoyed the holidays, now its time to enjoy some poetry!

DelaWhere? Wilmington is kicking off our new year of poetry with a feature by Mike O'Hara. Mike's poetry never ceases to entertain and its sure to be a good time. You'll never think of your home electronics the same way again.

First off I hope everyone is having (or planning to have) a happy holidays. I wanted to take a minute and review some really exciting (for me anyway) changes for the new year at DelaWhere.

First off, we are switching to a new schedule. We will still be holding events on Wednesdays, but the show will be every other week. We hope this will allow us to come up with some amazing shows. We have features booked for both shows in January, but more on that later. If you see any DelaWhere fans, please try to pass the word.

We don't want you to worry about when the shows are and what is going on. Towards that goal, we are launching a new website in January. The new site will be a lot easier for us to update and hopefully easier for everyone to reference. We're in the process of building it out now and hope to have it up soon.

Along with the new site you'll also be seeing news and events about the reading in Newark. We have integrated the management of the two shows. They still remain separate venues, but we're sharing some administrative overhead like the website. We'll also be coordinating things as a group in the future.

Also, we are always looking for new ways to reach out to the community. If you know of other groups that might be interested in our events or other marketing/promotional oppurtunities please let us know.

If you have any other questions, concerns, or ideas please feel free to contact us.

Morgan and I both have engagements tonight, so there will be no poetry tonight.

We'll also be closed next wednesday for christmas!

That said, we'll be ringing in the new year in style, with features on the 2nd and 4th wednesday of next January.

Happy Holidays!

This week at DelaWhere? Open Mic and Slam will be the selection slam for the DelaWhere? Wilmington representative to WoWPS.

The round structure for this event will be similar to preliminary rounds at WoWPS. There will be four rounds to the competition. Each round will have a differing time limit restriction, 1 minute, 4 minute, 2 minute, 3 minute, respectively. All other rules will remain the same. Order for the first round is determined by draw. Each successive round is ordered highest to lowest, based on the cumulative score thus far. Highest cumulative score is the representative.

Nota Bene: All entrants are responsible for registration and travel fees. All entrants must be PSi members.

Tonight's reading proudly features Erin Livingston.

Come out and show your support for our out-of-town guest!

Look forward to seeing your snowy faces,

DelaWhere? Poetry Open Mic & Slam
@ Crimson Moon
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington, DE 19805
http://www.delawhere.org

Alvin Lau and K8FS are going to be live and loud at the moon.

Come out, show your patronage, and listen to some really hot spoken word.

Cheers,

DelaWhere? Poetry Open Mic & Slam
@ Crimson Moon
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington, DE 19805
http://www.delawhere.org

This Wednesday!  Halloween Night!  

There will be happy hauntings at the Crimson Moon as Rob C comes from Colorado to feature, and we'll be having a costume and prop slam!  Wow them with your words, or wow them with your crazy outfit, or do both.

Dress up, write something, please come out and party with the poets this Halloween night!

xoxoxo,
Team DelaWhere?

DelaWhere? Poetry Open Mic & Slam
@ Crimson Moon
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington, DE 19805
http://www.delawhere.org

Tonight, tonight!  Spark Magazine (www.SparkWeekly.com) is coming tonight!  And with a photographer even! 

So tell your friends, co-workers, and neighbors that if they want to check out some sizzling hot poetry, share some of their own, and possibly get interviewed by Spark Magazine, they should come out to The Crimson Moon!

Also, we're going to have SLAM tonight, as well as the open mic.  So bring your best work let's have a crazy-go-nuts time!


DelaWhere? Open Mic & Slam
@ the Crimson Moon
1909 W. 6th Street  (Between N. Union St. and N. Lincoln St.)
Wilmington, DE 19805
8pm / $2 cover
$5 minimum purchase (to support our venue!)
21 + (It is a bar, afterall)
http://www.delawhere.org
http://www.myspace.com/delawhereslam    

Join us tomorrow night at the Crimson Moon for a FAN-f*cking-TASTIC feature, 2007 National Poetry Slam Individual champ Danny Sherrard!  Plus, we'll have a sweet-ass open mic for you to share your new stuff, your favorite stuff, and your random stuff.  Can't wait to see your smiling faces tomorrow night! 

Want to know a little more about Danny?  Check out this bio:

Danny Sherrard is the 2007 Individual National Poetry Slam Champion.
He is the youngest person to do that. So after he did it, he hit the road
with some books and a suitcase, and decided (although it sounds
corny) that he would let his heart be his boss. Buddy Wakefield
has referred to Danny as "the future" and Danny approves of that ovation.
Now, he is taking the slam scene by storm with his kinetic imagery and language. Danny's poetry speaks to a desire to be more than he has ever dreamed while still trying to keep his feet on the ground. He jumps frequently just to test and make sure gravity is still there. He will uplift you, he will inspire you - come see what the "future" of spoken word has to say.

Tomorrow = poetic awesomeness.

FYI...a little over a year ago we started this whole crazy venture.  It's our first anniversary, and we're happy we've made it this far.  We're looking forward to finding out how much better we can become.  Face it, we're pretty kickass as it is, but as the song goes, "it's getting better all the time".  HAPPY SLAM-IVERSARY to us!  Thanks to all of you for continuing to support us and the Crimson Moon.  It's a labor of love--we definitely don't get paid to do this for you.  Why not come and celebrate with us and Danny Sherrard this Wednesday at 8pm?  See you there!

<3
Team DelaWhere?

DelaWhere? Open Mic & Slam
@ the Crimson Moon
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington DE 19805
8pm / $2 cover
$5 minimum purchase (to support our venue!)
21 + (because our aforementioned venue is a bar!)
http://www.delawhere.org
http://www.myspace.com/delawhereslam

Hey poetry friends....

Tomorrow night we're slamming, remember?

Come out and compete, judge, read on the open mic or just kick back with a drink and enjoy the show.

We promise you'll have a good time. See you at the Crimson Moon!

love,
Team DelaWhere?

DelaWhere? Open Mic & Slam
@ Crimson Moon
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington DE 19805
http://www.delawhere.org
$2 cover / $5 minimum purchase (help support our venue!)
21 + (oh, did we mention our venue is a bar?)


***PS:  Next week our feature is NPS 2007 Indie Champ Danny Sherrard!  Woo hoo!***

Taalam Acey!

8pm!

Crimson Moon!

(show will most likely start late if you are late, but please do your best to be there by 8:30 so we can at least start on "poet time"...)

See you there! 

Here at the DelaWhere? Open Mic & Slam, we have soooo many great features lined up for this fall.  You guys are really going to dig it, and this week will be no exception.  Our feature this week is none other than Taalam Acey! 

What?  You don't know about Taalam?  Make sure you check out his bio at the end of this message, because...wow.  He's a fantastic poet, a novelist, and a really down-to-earth guy.  We know you're gonna love him, and we want him to have a great DelaWhere? welcome. 

Plus, we'll have our usual open mic, and if enough people are interested, maybe we can get a little SLAM together?  Hmm? 

Oh, and FYI for would-be open-mic readers...if you are really scared that your own poems aren't "good enough" for whatever reason, the open mic is just that--a place to share poetry.  As long as you're not slamming, you don't have to perform your own poems.  We know some of you are shy about your own work, so if that's not what you want to do, it's okay.  We just want to hear poems...anybody's poems!

We really hope you come out this Wednesday, and bring some friends.  This is going to be a great season-opener-type show!  Oh, and wanna know about Taalam Acey himself?  Read on...

About the Feature: Taalam Acey may be the hardest working spoken word artist of his generation. He’s published a novel, a comprehensive collection of poems, an award winning memoir and 9 spoken word CDs. Taalam has been a full time traveling poet since 1999. Tens of thousands of people own his work and many, many more have seen his performances. Acey performs regularly in more than 50 cities in the US and abroad. On average, he is on a plane once every 3.5 days. That’s 100 flights per year to promote spoken word. Taalam’s work has been featured on BET, TV One and in Essence Magazine. He has been a frequent guest at dozens of colleges and Universities and has lectured on contemporary spoken word at the prestigious Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Acey has twice been featured at the Essence Music Festival. He’s been quoted in several newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Weekly and the New Jersey Star Ledger. In addition, Acey’s work has been associated with films that have garnered an Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Acey is also an accomplished slam poet who has won slams throughout the United States as well as in Germany and England. He was featured in an acclaimed Radio-One London documentary on slam and Marc Smith, the founder of slam poetry, used Acey’s work as an example of slam poetry in his definitive book.

See you tomorrow night at the Crimson Moon!

love,
Team DelaWhere?

DelaWhere? Poetry Open Mic & Slam

@ Crimson Moon Tavern
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington DE 19805

21 + (since this is a BAR, after all)
$2 cover, recommended $5 minimum purchase
(WHY THE PURCHASE?  Crimson Moon supports us, and all they ask is that we support them in return.)

http://www.delawhere.org
http://www.myspace.com/delawhereslam 

Hey, we screw up sometimes, because we don't get to run a poetry slam as our day job:


I f**ked up. I blame the confusion of doing real work at the same time as I do MySpace. Rob C will be our feature in OCTOBER on Halloween (woot!), and TALAAM ACEY (the freakin' man, ya'll) will be our feature on September 12.

Sorry, Talaam. Nothin' but love for ya, and we can't wait to see you! :)

Open mic poetry tonight! Fun! Food! And of course, the back porch kitty-cat will keep you company if you need to go out back to smoke. Meow.

Come read, come hang out, and come support poetry in Delaware!

Coming on September 12, featured poet Rob C from Denver, CO! You won't want to miss it. Why not have your best poems ready by practicing at our open mic?

FYI...we tend to start our shows a bit late these days. Please try to get to the Crimson Moon by 8pm, but we've been ending up starting around 8:30, sometimes later. The more people we have to read on our open mic, the faster we can get our show started. We'd love to see your cute poet faces tonight in Wilmington!

See you at the Crimson Moon!

love,
Team DelaWhere?

DelaWhere? Open Mic & Slam
@ the Crimson Moon Tavern
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington DE 19805
$2 cover / $5 minimum purchase (2 beers! Or a beer and fries! Support our awesome venue, please!)
21 + .... It's a bar, you know the rules.
http://www.delawhere.org

Tonight at the Crimson Moon!

Poetry Open Mic!  Poetry is not dead in Delaware.  Come out and prove it, plus get some food and drinks, and meet the Back Porch Kitty.  (Seriously cute...we're considering making him our unofficial mascot.)

What else can you do for $2 on a Wednesday night?

We'll see you at the Crimson Moon!  Oh, and coming soon, a jam-packed features schedule!  See ya tonight.

love,
Team Delawhere?

DelaWhere? Open Mic & Slam
@ the Crimson Moon Tavern
1909 W. 6th Street
Wilmington DE 19805
http://www.delawhere.org
21+/ $2 cover / $5 minimum purchase (please support our venue!)

Okay, so some of you complained the YouTube embedding didn't work on delawhere.org 

(Morgan, here's where you come to fix things......)

Sooo, if you want to see almost all of Team Wilmington, DE 2007 in bed with Zork & LV, follow your nose to this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBlLq-R1QIc

Yay bed vlog!  Also, check out Zork's other bed vlogs from NPS with all kinds of poets besides us.  :)

NPS 2007 was one of the best Nationals for a Delaware team yet! 52 out of 75, with plenty of spot-on performances. Come out to the Crimson Moon this Wednesday for inspired new work and tales of Austin, TX! But dude, check this shit out:

Thanks to Zork and LV for having us in their bed. Also for the free pizza later in the week. I guess they don't call it the DelaWHORE for nothing...lol...



NOTE: Everyone was wearing pants for the filming of this video. No actual humping occured during the filming process of this video. Delaware is not to be held responsible for any cases of the vapors resulting in seeing the HOT, HOT people contained within this video. Also, make sure you wait until the end for my excellent closing quote. Rawk on.

Can't wait to see some local lovelies for our open mic this Wednesday! See you at the Crimson Moon!

Love,
Hannah (for all of Team DelaWHERE?)

Do NOT come to the Crimson Moon this week.

Why?

Because we will collectively be roXorING teh boXORz in Austin, Texas at the National Poetry Slam!!

We'll see you next week at our regularly scheduled Wednesday time.  In the meantime, some of us have to catch a flight at 5:30am and need to get back to packing.

Stay tuned...if we get a chance to update you on our status, we will.

For more NPS info, go visit http://www.nps2007.com please!  See you soon!

(Please ignore the GLARING typo...way to misspell your own name, Matt.)

Great door prizes for almost everyone!  


RAFFLE PRIZES INCLUDE:

13" TV w/built-in DVD player!
A Weber charcoal grill!
A one-of-a-kind Nerd Slam Survival Kit!
One-of-a-kind Paintings by Jeff White!
A Fellowes paper shredder!
GIANT bottles of Wine!
Fun stuff for the beach!
A golf bag!
AND MORE....Every $1 you donate to the team earns you another chance to win faaaabulous stuff.

The team is counting on you!  See you tonight!

I don't know why this is coming over the inter-wubs so small!  We've got a bigger version over at our MySpace.  

DelaWhere?'s National Poetry Slam Team Seeks Your Support!

 

What do you get when you combine 4 poets from Delaware, 1 poet from Philadelphia, raucous performances and Olympic-style judging?   Why, the 2007 DelaWhere? National Poetry Slam Team, of course!  The National Poetry Slam will be held this year in Austin, Texas from August 7-12, and Wilmington's first-ever team will be there to compete as one of 75 teams from around the US and the world, but they have a problem.   Traveling to Texas for a week costs money.  This is where you come in.

 

The DelaWhere Poetry Open Mic & Slam, held every Wednesday at the Crimson Moon in Wilmington, will be taking a break from their usual poetry routine on August 1 ^st to bring you a night of music and poetry to benefit the 2007 team.  There will be poetry performances by members of Team DelaWhere? as well as musical performances by very special guests Gina Degnars (of Stygian Veil) and Chris Malinowski (of The Collingwood)!   There will also be giveaways and a silent auction, plus the bar and the kitchen will be open for your drinking and dining pleasure.  Poetry chapbooks will also be for sale.   

GIVEAWAYS/AUCTION ITEMS include:

13" TV w/built-in DVD player
A Weber charcoal grill
Artwork by Jeff White
A Paper Shredder
T-Shirts, Hats, and various cool odds and ends (thanks to our friends at Delaware Importers)
Themed gift packs
AND MORE!!

 

Please join us for this fun night celebrating Wilmington's first poetry slam team:

 

DelaWhere? Poetry Open Mic & Slam's

2007 National Poetry Slam Send-Off Party

Wednesday, August 1^st, 2007

8pm

$5 suggested donation

Crimson Moon

1909 W. 6^th Street

Wilmington DE 19805

http://www.delawhere.org