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Team SNO July Open Mic & Slam

Slam New Orleans hosts their monthly open mic at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 9, at Ashé Cac (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd). Team SNO will perform, as well as members from the public. Team SNO are the 2012 and 2013 National Poetry Slam Champions and 2016 Southernfried regional champs. Their open mic and slam is on Team SNO July Open Mic & Slam

Team SNO May Open Mic and Slam

The Team SNO monthly open mic and Poetry Slam will be held on Sunday, May 7, at 7 p.m. at Ashé CAC (1217 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd). Come share in the written and spoken word with artists and poetry lovers. The show starts at 7 p.m. Cover is $5.

Rickey Laurentiis to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2016 LitFest March 12 and give a reading at NOCCA March 10

Poet Rickey Laurentiis will give the keynote reading for the 9th annual New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (2800 Chartres St.). Laurentiis is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Rickey Laurentiis to headline the New Orleans New Writers 2016 LitFest March 12 and give a reading at NOCCA March 10

Slam New Orleans Takes the National Title

Teams of performance poets from around the country converged on Charlotte, North Carolina, last month for the 23rd annual National Poetry Slam, and local team Slam New Orleans took away the top prize. Seventy-two teams competed in head-to-head bouts during the five-day event that drew more than 1,000 poets and spectators. Kataalyst Alcindor, who leads Slam New Orleans Takes the National Title