There aren’t many slams left. 2 to be exact. If you are a poet and haven’t competed yet, what are you waiting for? Come spit some fuego aka Fire.
Come and listen to some great poetry on Tuesday March the 27 at Rouge Lounge/Rosebowl on 117 and Jasper at 8p
Last Slam we were fortunate to have Remi Kanazi who is from New York, feature. The night was well attended and we even had 7 poets compete.
1st Colin Matty
2nd Liam Coady
3rd Kaz Mega
This week we are featuring a great poet who was part of the 2011
Ottawa Capital Slam team. His name is Sean O’Gorman
Sean O’Gorman View his video –> http://vimeo.com/35640354
Sean O`Gorman is a Spoken Word artist active in the scene since 2009. He is a member of the Capital Poetry Collective, as well as a member of the Urban Legends organizing committee. He is the author of 2 volumes of poetry. In the 2010 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word he was a semi-finalist as a member of the Wild Card team and in 2011 was a semifinalist again as a member of the Capital Slam team.
Sean O’Gorman 3, VERSeFest 2011
Sean O’Gorman, Forget the cartoons, a letter to my nieces.AVI
Loveless and Stranded by Sean O’Gorman slam poetry spoken word ottawa.AVI
Publications
2009 – Self published a 148 page collection of poetry, spoken word and short stories. Scattered Notes and Missing Pieces. It is currently in it’s 3rd print.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9243255-scattered-notes-and-missing-pieces
2010 – Featured on the audio cd Live at Capital Slam 2010
2011 – Featured twice on the audio cd Live at Capital Slam 2011
http://www.vanorange.ca/Capital_poetry_slamCD.html
2011 – Self published a 187 page collection of poetry, Spoken Word and photography. Stained Pages. It is currently in its 2nd printing.
