KW Poetry Slam

Building a community around spoken word poetry in #kwawesome. Everyone is welcome to our spoken word poetry shows and writing circles.

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So proud of our poets! Here is our entourage who came out to support #kwhasspoken #CFSW2018

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Truth Is is so funny! "0 is the worst poem you've ever heard. 10 is so good you are ready to build a time machine and go back 3 minutes to see that poem being made again." #CFSW2018

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At the first bout at ebar for #CFSW2018 and already high on poetry and drunk on Truth Is! #streetlightsareon @guelphpoetry @CFSW_FCSW

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Field trip!!!! Let's head over to Guelph this week #kwawesome for the Canadian festival of Spoken word. This fest changes city across the state every year and you can see top poets from every major city in Canada. Come support your kw poets. Schedule: https://t.co/HkOFF2UGOz

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Our KW poetry slam team is in Guelph this week representing us at the Canadian festival of Spoken word!! They compete tonight at 9pm @CFSW_FCSW at 42 Carden St Guelph, Venue name: 10C #kwhasspoken #wrawesome #investartswr

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Congratulations to 2 wonderful poets we have been honoured to have perform at our slam in the past! Shayne avec i grec and Truth Is !

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Determined by nationwide nominations, please join us in congratulating the #CFSW2018 Poets of Honour @avecigrec and @truthisellipsis
We are looking forward to their spectacular feature performance at CFSW finals night Sat. Nov. 3rd at the @riverruncentre #Guelph @guelphpoetry

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"Do you know what it looks like, when skin touches skin and gender isn't in the way?" Nonbinary love poem by one of our poets who came up in our scene, Ossian MacEachern! https://t.co/hjLRCVBMxw #gender #nonbinary #enby #spokenword #kwhasspoken

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We have 45 hours left in our fundraiser - we will be so happy if we can reach over $1000! Looking for someone to donate $35 to take us to that mark! #kwawesome #wrarts #wrawesome #attnkwtech https://t.co/xb0rhIorpz

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"A poet's heart and a physicist's mind." a poem by our resident scientist about straddling many worlds, and being in between @NiticaSakh #kwhasspoken #kwawesome https://t.co/h6MdHzhe5a

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Hey Waterloo arts supporters, there's lots of talk about the arts always. We'd love to see you buy a poetry book and directly support your local poets! @beisan @fauziamazhar2 @berryonline @TenilleUptown https://t.co/xb0rhIorpz

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“Poetry is my favorite chaos.”
@fridahalo

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Here is a poem by one of your KW Slam Team poets, Namrata Tilokani! About ancestry, family, love and sweets! #kwhasspoken #wrawesome #spokenword https://t.co/fp2WNBoTk1

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We have 9 days left in our fundraiser and 1/3 of our goal has been raised! Thank you to our supporters so far. Take a look at what we've been up to this year in KW, bringing up our next generation of poets. Hoping to raise $50 today! https://t.co/xb0rhIorpz

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What is the responsibility of the storyteller? To quote Nina Simone, an artist's job is to reflect the times. Spoken word poetry is alive and thriving #wrawesome! We are offering writing workshops, poetry books and more for our fundraiser https://t.co/xb0rhIorpz

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We are 4 days in to our 14 day fundraiser and have raised 27% of our target. Thank you so much Waterloo Region arts lovers for supporting our next generation of spoken word poets. We'd love your support! https://t.co/xb0rhIorpz https://t.co/obzwy4Ymk6

[Janice Jo Lee @JaniceJoLee]

Here's our @kwpoetryslam residency recap video! We have launched a modest fundraiser to support our poets to go to Nationals! Support the arts #kwawesome #wrawesome https://t.co/6esvLxTaww

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We are thrilled to be sending our team to the Canadian Festival of Spoken word next month down the street in Guelph!! Get your tickets

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NEWs: #cfsw2018 program officially released! https://t.co/5Qtlc0jgfV check out the amazing line up! @SpokenWordCan @guelpharts @guelphdowntown @The_eBar @10Carden @GuelphBHS

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Bid day today KW. Happy Tripride. Come hear a bunch of queer/trans poets tonight @KWPoetrySlam finals #kwawesome #tripride

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Our finals slam is in 2 days @Catalyst137kw with trailblazing dub Poet @LillianAllenDub as our feature. Only pure poetry gold this Sat June 2nd. Get ur tickets!

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Absolutely honoured that @LillianAllenDub is our feature poet for our @KWPoetrySlam Finals. Our 6 #kwpsresidency poets have been writing, editing and practicing. Come and vote for your team! Sat June 2nd @Catalyst137kw Bringing art and tech together, so buy a ticket. #kwhasspoken