Tonight's Vancouver Poetry Slam Finals will be one of North America's most hotly contested regional battles. Vancouver has a huge slam poetry scene. With the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships hosted right here just a couple months back, the poetry fusion, passion, and level of practice just keep going up. Tonight, after months of preliminaries, Vancity's top slam poets are fighting it out for slots on Vancouver's team for the National (really North American) Poetry Slam Championships in Austin in August.

Like other Slams, tonight's event will be audience judged. You can walk in to a slam knowing very little and moments later find yourself a judge, holding up scorecards with a raucous crowd surrounding you, hooting and hollering about your decision. This happened to me @ the World's a couple month's ago, and it was a pretty intense experience.

Tonight's bouts will be especially thrilling because there's a lot of new blood on the scene. Vancouver has some fabulous, dedicated slam poets who've been practising their craft for years; but this year some completely fresh talents have emerged to challenge them. The outcome is by no means certain. What is for sure is that everyone will be at the top of his or her game and the night will be high-energy and hard fought.

And tonight's host, Anis Mojgani, is my very favorite slam poet, who is right now ranked #2 in the world.

The Vancouver Poetry Slam Finals
Monday May 7, doors 7:30, Slam 9:00
tix: $10 advanced, $15 at the door
WISE Hall 1882 Adanac Street

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