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Game Day Blog by WD

The Artist Quarter: the End of a Season Analyzed from a Purely Statistical Standpoint by Wonder Dave, who will refer to himself in 3rd person for the remainder of this post. So, the Artist Quarter Poetry Slam determines its finals … Continue reading

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Artists’ Quarter- Playing the Game

Spring has not quite sprung, but the poets are coming out in waves to compete. March’s AQ marked the second to last chance to qualify for the Grand Slam, and a plague of poets descended upon the Soapboxing slam for … Continue reading

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Soapboxing and the Cool Kids

Listen to Dessa, she’s one of the cool kids. She knows where it’s at. We’ll get back to Dessa Darling of Doomtree later, as she featured at Monday night’s Soapboxing slam at the AQ. Monday’s turnout at the Artists’ Quarter … Continue reading

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Soapboxing Blowout

Don’t call it a comeback! The first Soapboxing Slam of 2009 had more new faces, more poets back out of retirement, and higher quality slamming than I’ve seen in a minute. Sixteen poets (not counting the WOWps showdown pair) signed … Continue reading

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Introductions and Ill Chemistry

Dictionary.com merely defines “spoken word” as “a word that is spoken aloud”. But that’s not quite it, is it? So here we are in the Artists’ Quarter in downtown Saint Paul, a bar jazz club tucked into the basement of … Continue reading

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