{"id":269,"date":"2008-04-07T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/poetry-slam-from-st-paul\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:34:23","slug":"poetry-slam-from-st-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/07\/poetry-slam-from-st-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul Poetry Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/newsletter-morning\/ci_8832790?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">from TwinCities.com<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal bold 24px\/normal verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #005296\" class=\"articleTitle\">Putting poetry in motion<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #959595; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Article Last Updated:\u00a004\/06\/2008 11:12:43 PM CDT<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px\">April is National Poetry Month, so it&#8217;s a particularly good time for local bards to polish their works in a competitive performance venue. Poets from Minnesota and Wisconsin have been strutting their stuff the first Monday of most months in St. Paul at the Artists&#8217; Quarter, where tonight is the final night of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px\">Up to 10 poets present original works, with each scored by judges picked from the audience. The eight-month season culminates with a Grand Slam in May. The top four finishers form the Soap Boxing Slam team, which will compete in the Poetry Slam Nationals in Madison, Wis., in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/medianewsgroup.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/medianewsgroup-stpaulpioneerpres-pub01-live\/current\/flashTemplate\/mediumFlash\/client\/embedded\/embedded.swf\" flashvars=\"playerId=localnews&amp;referralObject=69123f8b-a987-419c-b46b-2d6afd378ea9\" width=\"320\" height=\"305\" wmode=\"false\" scriptaccess=\"always\" salign=\"LT\" menu=\"false\" scale=\"noscale\" play=\"false\" name=\"embedded\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" id=\"mediumFlashEmbedded\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/newsletter-morning\/ci_8832790?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">click to view original article at TwinCities.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TwinCities.com Putting poetry in motion Article Last Updated:\u00a004\/06\/2008 11:12:43 PM CDT\u00a0 April is National Poetry Month, so it&#8217;s a particularly good time for local bards to polish their works in a competitive performance venue. 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