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Title:    First Annual Hampshire College Festival of the Spoken Word

Date:     September 27, 2002
Time:     5 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Calendar: Center for the Book Calendar

Author:   Laura Weissbein, Adam Rubinstein (lww02 at hampshire.edu,pir at mac.com)

Action:   New event added

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Verbal Response: The First Annual
Hampshire College Festival of The Spoken Word

General Press Release

Hampshire College
893 West. St.
Amherst, Ma.

September 27, 5pm – Midnight. (Open Mic opens at Mid.)
September 28, 10am – Midnight.
September 29, 11am – 6pm. (Open Mic closes at Mid.)

All events take place on the lawn fronting the Johnson Library.
(Rain locations located across campus.)

Thirty six of the most award-winning, sought-after, and 
up-and-coming Performance Poets in the continent converge 
on the Hampshire College campus for a weekend of performance 
and interaction with the community. Among those scheduled to 
read are Marty McConnell, director of Youth Speaks NY, 
Regie Gibson, winner of the 1998 National Individual Poetry
 Slam Championship, Brenda Moossy, winner of the Qalam Award 
in Fiction, underground hip-hop poet legend, Sage Francis, and 
Patricia Smith, 4-time winner of the National Individual Poetry Slam.

Special Events include a 48-hour sustained Open-Mic space in 
the Yurt Radio Station beginning Friday at Midnight, and ending 
Sunday Midnight, broadcast across campus, and a Saturday Night 
Slam, including multiple winners of past National Individual Poetry
 Slam Championships.

Additionally, a video crew will be circulating all weekend, 
filming for a retrospective CD and VHS/DVD, expected to be 
available at the Hampshire College Bookstore early 2003.

All welcome. Admission is free.

Poets In Attendance:
Corrina Bain, Roger Bonair-Agard, Tony Brown, Olu Butterfly, 
Marlon Carey, Alex Charalambides, Michael Culp, Kwesi Davis, 
Seren Divine, Bernard Dolan, Katie Fowley, Sage Francis, Rushelle 
Frazier, Paul Gagnon, Edward Garcia, Regie Gibson, Rachel Hyman, 
Victor Infante, J* me, Shane Koyczan, Toni Asante Lightfoot,   
Bill MacMillan, Sou MacMillan, Stephen Maher, Ellyn Maybe, 
Jack McCarthy, Marty McConnell, George McKibbins, Ryk McIntyre, 
Brenda Moossy, Nikulydin, Ieyoka Okoawo, Omoizele Okoawo, 
Lynne Procope, Patricia Smith, Adam Stone, F. Omar Telan, John Woolf.


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Hampshire College Festival of The Spoken Word

General Press Release

Hampshire College
893 West. St.
Amherst, Ma.

September 27, 5pm – Midnight. (Open Mic opens at Mid.)
September 28, 10am – Midnight.
September 29, 11am – 6pm. (Open Mic closes at Mid.)

All events take place on the lawn fronting the Johnson Library.
(Rain locations located across campus.)

Thirty six of the most award-winning, sought-after, and 
up-and-coming Performance Poets in the continent converge 
on the Hampshire College campus for a weekend of performance 
and interaction with the community. Among those scheduled to 
read are Marty McConnell, director of Youth Speaks NY, 
Regie Gibson, winner of the 1998 National Individual Poetry
 Slam Championship, Brenda Moossy, winner of the Qalam Award 
in Fiction, underground hip-hop poet legend, Sage Francis, and 
Patricia Smith, 4-time winner of the National Individual Poetry Slam.

Special Events include a 48-hour sustained Open-Mic space in 
the Yurt Radio Station beginning Friday at Midnight, and ending 
Sunday Midnight, broadcast across campus, and a Saturday Night 
Slam, including multiple winners of past National Individual Poetry
 Slam Championships.

Additionally, a video crew will be circulating all weekend, 
filming for a retrospective CD and VHS/DVD, expected to be 
available at the Hampshire College Bookstore early 2003.

All welcome. Admission is free.

Poets In Attendance:
Corrina Bain, Roger Bonair-Agard, Tony Brown, Olu Butterfly, 
Marlon Carey, Alex Charalambides, Michael Culp, Kwesi Davis, 
Seren Divine, Bernard Dolan, Katie Fowley, Sage Francis, Rushelle 
Frazier, Paul Gagnon, Edward Garcia, Regie Gibson, Rachel Hyman, 
Victor Infante, J* me, Shane Koyczan, Toni Asante Lightfoot,   
Bill MacMillan, Sou MacMillan, Stephen Maher, Ellyn Maybe, 
Jack McCarthy, Marty McConnell, George McKibbins, Ryk McIntyre, 
Brenda Moossy, Nikulydin, Ieyoka Okoawo, Omoizele Okoawo, 
Lynne Procope, Patricia Smith, Adam Stone, F. Omar Telan, John Woolf.
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