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Open Mic & Old School Slam
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:00 pm to 12:00 am
AWP welcomes students to return to the roots of Slam! Open Mic, where special guests and then undergraduate and graduate students partake in a hardcore-break-your-heart-strut-out-the-good-stuff slam competition. Students are welcome to sign up to participate on Thursday, March 24, 2022, and Friday, March 25, 2022, at the Wilkes University/Etruscan Press booth and read original pieces (three minutes or less with no props) at the Slam later that night. Sponsors: Wilkes University and Etruscan Press.
Participants
Stanton Hancock is a writer, musician, and educator from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. He has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University, and his poems have been published in several anthologies, most recently the forthcoming Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania.
Jason Carney, a performance poet from Dallas, Texas, is a four-time National Poetry Slam finalist, honored as a Legend of the Slam in 2007. He appeared on three seasons of the HBO television series Russell Simmons’ Def Poets. Jason's memoir, Starve the Vulture, was released in 2015.
