BAMUTHI, SEEKING, MARCUS RENE VAN, CHARLES ELLIK, SONIA WHITTLE,: The Best of the Berkeley Slam, Volume One

Bamuthi, SeeKing, Marcus Rene Van, Charles Ellik, Sonia Whittle,

The Best of the Berkeley Slam, Volume One

© 2001 Bamuthi, SeeKing, Marcus Rene Van, Charles Ellik, Sonia Whittle,

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One of the best attended Poetry Slams in the country, featuring and fostering some of the finest performance poets in the nation. This is a sampling of 10 of the finest poets from the 2000 season.

tracks

1 Bamuthi (SeeKing)- All I Hear
2 Marcus Rene Van- Red Lipstick
3 Marcus Rene Van- You're Too Fat for That
4 Charles Ellik- Kinky Black Hairs
5 Charles Ellik- Nibble the Nose
6 Sonia Whittle- Houdini Hocus Pocus
7 Sonia Whittle- Sleepers
8 Jamie Kennedy- Beauty & the Beastiality
9 Jamie Kennedy- Xiana Fairchild
10 Nazelah Jamison- Smoking
11 Nazelah Jamison- My Love
12 Michael Cirelli- Vinyl
13 Michael Cirelli- Soldiers with Ice Skates
14 Shailja Patel- She Said No
15 Shailja Patel- Dreaming in Gujurati
16 Bucky Sinister- One Way Ticket to Midnight
17 Bucky Sinister- The Ballad of Chicken Larry
18 Ariana Waynes- Et Cetera and All That Jazz
19 Ariana Waynes- Even the Sky Looked Away

notes

Think you hate poetry? Then you havem't been to a Slam!

What is Slam? It's a new art form that combines serious wordsmithing, hip-hop, punk rock, theater arts, stand-up comedy, and more!

There are now Poetry Slams drawing in hundreds of audience members every week all over the US and Canada- find out why!

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  • author: CD Baby

    "Think you hate poetry? Then you havem't been to a Slam!" Met with equally powerful spoken word performances, and ranging in personality from punk rock to theatre arts to hip hop and comedy, this all-out album of dynamic and diverse poetry goes in for the kill from the first to the last track with vivid, evocative and dramatic readings. Giving you an inside ear on one of the best attended Poetry Slams in the country, this sampling of 10 of the finest poets from the 2000 season celebrates the art of wordsmithing.

  • LOVE IT!!
    author: Derrick Brown

    What a pleasure to live and breath the lives of these characters through words and breath and voice!! I would say put it on your Xmas list, birthday list, the birth of your new child, graduation.... oh just get it you won't be sorry!

  • author: Tamara Turner, CD Baby.com

    "Think you hate poetry? Then you havem't been to a Slam!" Met with equally powerful spoken word performances, and ranging in personality from punk rock to theatre arts to hip hop and comedy, this all-out album of dynamic and diverse poetry goes in for the kill from the first to the last track with vivid, evocative and dramatic readings. Giving you an inside ear on one of the best attended Poetry Slams in the country, this sampling of 10 of the finest poets from the 2000 season celebrates the art of wordsmithing.

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