What: Poetry SlamMN’s 17^th Annual Erotica Slam

When: Saturday, February 11^th and Tuesday February 14^th 8:00 pm

Where: Kieran’s Irish Pub – 601 1^st Ave N (Block E) Minneapolis, MN 55403

Cost: $7.00

Make Reservations: 612-339-4499 

The Twin Cities sexiest spoken word event is back for it’s 17^th year.  Named 2010 City Pages Best Of Spoken Word event SlamMN’s Erotica Slam is one not to miss.  Due to popular demand, and the day of love being a Tuesday, we’ve added a second night of sass.  Join us on either Saturday, February 11^th for a hot weekend night on the town, or on Saturday, February 14^th, to celebrate Valentine’s Day proper.  Make sure to make reservations by calling Kieran’s Irish Pub at 612-339-4499 because the show always sells out.  Come early for dinner, stay for drinks, sexy time raffles, and poetry that will make your squirm, squish, and simmer.  Bring your own 3 minute long poems if you’d like to compete.  Open sign-up starts at 7:00, so you never know who will take the stage.  You could be one of the judges that helps crown the most erotic poet in the Cities, or you could cuddle up in a corner and sit back and enjoy.  www.slammn.org for more details. 

SlamMN! is turning the hot up to 10 with the featured poet of the evening, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz.  Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of five books of poetry  (including Dear Future Boyfriend and Hot Teen Slut-written about her time as an “adult” editor for websites) as well as the author of the nonfiction book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, which Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature.” At age 19, she founded the three-time National Poetry Slam championship poetry series NYC-Urbana, which is still held weekly at the NYC’s famed Bowery Poetry Club. Aptowicz just finished serving as the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

Howdy Slam Fans:

SlamMN! ended 2011 on a high note with a standing room only filled room at Semi-Finals.  Our top six advanced to finals and now our qualifiers start fresh in 2012 for Poetry SlamMN! 2011 was a great year at Kiearan’s.  Some of the high-points:

• We spent our first full year at the new Kieran’s and have settled in to our new home
• Poetry SlamMN! had a tremendous showing at the National Poetry Slam in Boston in August.  We were ranked 1st going into semi-finals and placed 5th in the Nation overall.  This is the highest ranked SlamMN! has ever been.
• We’ve added a successful Moth-like Story Slam at Kieran’s Irish Pub.  Thought we were all about poetry?  Come check it out! 
• Moksha Yoga has offered to sponsor our qualifying poetry slams by providing prize money to the winners!  $100 1st, $60 2nd, $40 3rd
• Word Ninjas, our monthly open mic, succeeded in bringing new voices to both of our competitive stages, including many members of our Grand Slams. 
• Allison Broere, Slam Master of SlamMN! won the bid to be the host city coordinator for the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2013 and Kieran’s will be the headquarters!

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January Events:

Word Ninjas Open Mic January 10th

Come to the only night at Kieran’s where we don’t judge with scorecards! Practice new stuff. Bring your old favorites. You’ll have 5-7 minutes to do whatever you want in the new of words. Hosted by Slam Master Allison Broeren and Rockstar Storyteller phillip andrew bennett low.

Sign-up at 8:00 to the first 12
8:30 Show
$3.00 Suggested Donation

Poetry SlamMN! Qualifier Slam January 24th

Semi-finals was hot in December and now the poets are competing for the spring semis, hoping to make the National Team! Come check out some of the hottest spoken word in the country at SlamMN! Three rounds, three minute poems, five judges, one winner. Top 3 qualify for semis. 12 poets get to compete. Check out www.slammn.org for all the nitty gritty.

Prize money sponsored by Moksha Yoga
1st Place $120
2nd Place $60
3rd Place $40

Dinner/Drinks/Doors 7:00
Show 8:00

$5.00 Cover

All ages, but we don’t censor content

Women of the World Selection Slam

Help decide which one our incredibly amazing women poets will represent Minneapolis at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in March 2013.

This night is all about the ladies. There will be a slam and an all women’s showcase. More details to be announced soon.

7:00 Drinks, dinner, doors
8:00 Show

$5.00 Covers

All ages venue, but we don’t censor content

Story SlamMN! February The Ex-Files feature Les Kurkendaal

Story SlamMN! is super exited to have Fringe Famous storyteller from Hollywood Les Kurkendaal featuring our February slam. 

The theme is Ex-Files.  Storytellers have five minutes to wow of with their tales of exes.  The judges will decide who is the best.  The top three will win medals, money, and qualify for the grand slam. 

7:00 Dinner/Drinks/Doors

8:00 Show $5.00 Cover

Family time is over-now escape for some a time of awesome with SlamMN! Poets and non-poets are invited to come sign-up to compete on a team during the Decathaslam of Awesome. 10 rounds of crazy for each team: feats of strength, board games, haiku battle, improv poetry, some real poetry and more!

This is the first in a series of fundraisers for the National Team that will be traveling to North Carolina this summer. $5.00 cover. All of it goes to the team that will be selected in May.

Tuesday, December 27th

7:00 dinner/doors/drinks
8:00 show
$5.00 Cover

All ages, but we don’t censor

See you there!

It was an intimate room for Pay It Forward stories.  Some storytellers did very un-Minnesotan things like brag about the good they’ve done for people, while our champion of the evening phillip andrew bennett low drank himself into a Dr. Pepper coma in the story he shared with us.  Other tellers receiving medals were Christy Marie Kent and Katie Knutson.  Start preparing for your Jerk stories in January!

Check out our Facebook Invite for all the details!

Poetry SlamMN! November was a special night at Kieran’s Irish Pub.  We were standing room only full and over 20 poets, both new and old, showed up to compete for our 12 performance spots.  The judges were consistent, the audience was raucous, and the hostess hilarious (if I do say so myself).  Thanks to Chris Rockwell and Josh Ballard for sharing their poems with us during the feature set.  Congrats to winners Syd Malicous, Darius Gray, and Spencer Retelle.  Can’t wait to see you all at Semi-Finals on December 20th!

Just a quick note, all the formal details will come later, but we’re excited to announce that Alvin Lau from Chicago will be our March feature at Poetry SlamMN!

Mumble Mumble is excited to have Katherine Glover bringing her fringe show Burning Brothels: Sex and Death in Nevada to our stage in October.