Here are my favorite shots from the below albums.

Within this album are copies of the best shots from the festival.

If 600 images is just too much too look through. Then click to the link below for the 100 (or so) best shots from the festival.


http://public.fotki.com/mrKevinP/kevin_photo/az_photos/arizona_spoken_word/

http://public.fotki.com/mrKevinP/kevin_photo/az_photos/arizona_spoken_word/

Here are the best shots from all the albums below.

Free Thought for the Masses is on the 2nd Friday's in a bar in Tempe that I can never remember the name of.

These pictures were taken Election Night at the Trunk Space Art gallery.

Essenz Coffehouse has a slam every Thursday Night.

For about a year I hosted an event called Incubator's Ball. Here was the old PR stuff....

Like so many things in this Valley the poetry/spoken word community verges on the edge of greatness. And like so many things in this Valley one of our self-inflicted hindrances to greatness is our tendency to not be concerned, involved or even aware what the other segments of the Valley are up to. If you look long enough you’ll find four, five or even more separate but healthy spoken word communities. Unfortunately many of the poets and their audiences have yet to make the necessary connections to create the needed spark to make our Valley a nationally recognized hot spot for spoken word. But thanks to many people we got all the right ingredients. We just need a good stew pot to mix it all together.

Mesa’s Loud ASS Slam Poets of Anthology Café and Essenza Cafe,
Downtown’s experimentation centering around the Willow,
the constant steam of new poets stretching their muscles at the Naked Bean,
the not-quite-academic but not-quite-street poets of the Total Experience at Jackson’s on Third.

Once a month each venue sends a representing poet to the Incubator’s Ball.

like so many things in this Valley one of our self-inflicted hindrances to greatness is our tendency to not be concerned, involved or even aware what the other segments of the Valley are up to. If you look long enough you’ll find four, five or even more separate but healthy spoken word communities. Unfortunately many of the poets and their audiences have yet to make the necessary connections to create the needed spark to make our Valley a nationally recognized hot spot for spoken word. But thanks to many people we got all the right ingredients. We just need a good stew pot to mix it all together.

Mesa’s Loud ASS Slam Poets of Anthology Café and Essenza Cafe,
Downtown’s experimentation centering around the Willow,
the constant steam of new poets stretching their muscles at the Naked Bean,
the not-quite-academic but not-quite-street poets of the Total Experience at Jackson’s on Third.

Once a month each venue sends a representing poet to the Incubator’s Ball.

Marcel on TV
Frip's and Paul's B Party

Matt (MCMG) makes mead. He had a party where we all helped and then we drank.

Frip through a Paint Party. We painted.

The Anthology Cafe was in downtown Mesa. It closed.

The Total Experience was a Spoken Word Show at Jackson on 3rd every Sunday night. It is defunct.

Shai owned the naked bean. But he sold it about a year ago.