Event

Philly Pigeon Poetry Slam Feat. José Olivarez

$15 Reserved Seating www.thephillypigeon.com
This event costs $10. All ages welcome. Adult content.

PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street Philly, PA 19123
(Just North of Spring Garden)

Septa: Broad Street Line, 23,43,61

A poetry slam is a competition between poets performing original work judged by members of the audience. This poetry slam is organized by Jacob Winterstein, Kai Davis and Jasmine Combs.

Come perform, watch or judge.

**Poets wishing to compete should arrive at 8:30 to put their names in the hat. For this month all poets who put their name in the hat pay $5. At 9:00pm poets names will be picked out of the hat. Some poets will be pre-selected.**

The Pigeon* is excited to announce that this month's feature and workshop** leader:

José Olivarez

is the co-author of the book of poemsHome Court, and co-host of the poetry podcastThe Poetry Gods. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Program Director at Urban Word NYC. A winner of a 2016 Poets House Emerging Poet Fellowship and a 2015 Bronx Recognizes Its Own award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, his work has been published inThe BreakBeat Poets,Vinyl Poetry and Prose,Specter Magazine, andUnion Station Magazine, among other places.