Berkeley Poetry Slam

Leticia Hernández-Linares is gracing the Berkeley Slam rage this week, as we continue Latine History Month!

Sign up for our weekly slam at the door when the list goes out at 7:15pm! The list closes when we hit 20 sign ups! And only 14 poets touch the stage.

And don’t forget to join us for the writing workshop before the show! We got you covered with the writing prompts and a space to generate new work!

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As the season continues, our leaderboards grows, poet’s ascend. Others bide their time to refine their poems. It’s all the same.
But with 11 months to the season, whoever is at the top at the leaderboard is anyone’s guess.
And it looks like our poets will have more to look forward to in the future as well.

Latine Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the voices and contributions of the Latine writers in our community, and few have done as much good work for those voices than Elizabeth Jimenez Montelongo. The Founder of LaRaiz LaRaiz is here to share some poems with y’all and you don’t wanna miss these!

Sign up for the show at the door. Or come to writing workshop before the show and write some poems with us.

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And don’t forget to check up the rest of our amazing line up for the rest of the month.

The one and only CordonConcepts 🇬🇹🇸🇻, the poet laureate of Antioch, is blessing rhe Berkeley Alam stage, and you don’t wanna wanna miss it!

Come through next week as we continue Latine Herritags Month.

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POETS: sign up for the show at the door. And catch us for the writing workshop before the show!

Latine Heritage month IS HERE! And we have some very special poets lineup and ready to spit some dope ass poems, songs, and their art!

Slide through for the next few weeks at Berkeley Slam! This week we have immensely talanted Evelyn Donají rocking the Berkeley Slam Stage!

The one and only jaz sufi is featuring this upcoming week at Berkeley Slam in honor of their debut chapbook “Catalog of Shadows” (Game Over Books).

As a beloved member of the Berkeley Slam, this feature has been a long time coming.

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And don’t forget to catch us for the writing workshop before the show!

MONTHLY LEADERBOARD UPDATE!!!

Posted here are our top competing poets on our Leaderboard. There are plenty of poets who’ve made the second round, but only a handful who’ve managed to earn more than 4 points since the beginning of the season in July.

Keep trying poets. Remember, all you need is to make the second round of our weekly show to get on the Scoreboard.

4 points for 1st Place
3 points for 2nd Place
2 points for 3rd Place
1 point for 4th, 5th and 6th.