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Spanning four days this Fall, November 4th – 7th This year’s festival
features 11 developmental workshops ranging from coaching stage
presence for emerging poets to the therapeutic use of spoken word in
the community and the classroom. inkSlam also brings you Poet’s
Choice, five featured performance slots where top poets from different
backgrounds share their work with a focus on social consciousness. The
$5000 inkSlam Invitational Poetry Slam features 16 of the nation’s elite
poetry slam teams, bringing their best work and battling it out;
culminating in a Final Slam on Saturday, November 7 to be held in the
1,500 seat Fairfax Auditorium. They will be competing for $5000 in cash prizes.
$3500 for 1st place and $1500 for 2nd. 3rd and 4th place get a trophy and
handshakes. This is a pick your hottest team competition.
May the best team win.

In total the festival audience will top 3500 and showcase over 100 poets.

Teams attending include:
NYC
Austin
Charlotte
Atlanta
New Orleans
Hollywood
Berkeley
Las Vegas
and
Philadelphia