as i prepare for the 2012 slam season, i’m looking back on the 2011 season and all we’ve done. just found these pictures from our trip to new york city.
2011 DC Youth Slam Team at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Lower East Side, NYC
our friend and local poet in the DC/MD area, Chris August, just won the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam. we could not be more happy for him. he totally deserves it. he is amazing. here he is with trophy in hand in Cleveland, Ohio.
Born in Washington, DC and raised in Crofton, Maryland, Jonathan B. Tucker (JBT) is a writer, performer, educator, DJ, and dreamer passionate about poetry, youth empowerment, racial and social justice, and finding purpose through service to others. He has received numerous awards and artist fellowships, and has performed and taught at schools, libraries, detention centers, museums, and conferences around the world. His poems have appeared in Howard University’s Amistad Journal alongside the late Amiri Baraka (Howard University, 2011), in Etan Thomas’s anthology Voices of the Future (Haymarket Books, 2012), in two self-published chapbooks (jonathan b. tucker, 2010; and i got the matches, 2012), and on the stages of the Kennedy Center and the South African State Theatre. JBT represented DC at the National Poetry Slam in 2009 and 2010, and has helped coordinate and coach the DC Youth Slam Team with Split This Rock since 2011.
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