Green is a burning post-bop quartet featuring  Zack Lozier on trumpet, Rob Dewey on piano, Rich Casey on bass, and Scotty Schultz on drums.

“SOAP BOXING” POETRY SLAM - $5 to watch – Free if you compete  - 18+

Special guest feature from Oneonta, NY - Sierra DeMulder a member of the Intangibles Spoken Word Collective, which is based out of upstate New York. She took 2nd place in the Oneonta State Grand Slam, and competed as a member of the SUNY Oneonta Slam Team at ACUI Nationals at Eastern Michigan University where she was awarded Best Family Poem (2007). That same summer she competed with Oneonta at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas, where her team proudly won the Spirit of the Slam award.

Side Event: the One Minute Slam Off Anyone can compete. Just bring a one minute poem, and go for the gold.

What is Poetry Slam? ‘Poetry Slam’ is the competitive art of performance poetry

- and a really good time -
 

Up to ten poets perform in a randomly selected order. Five judges, randomly selected from the audience, score each poem (based on writing and performance) from 0.0 to 10.0. The highest scoring poets move on to the next round/s. The 1st – 3rd place winners win cash prizes.

The rules are as follows:

•     Each poem must be of the poet's own construction;
•     Each poet gets three minutes (plus a ten-second grace period) to read one poem, if the poet goes over, points will be deducted from the total score;
•     The poet may not use props, costumes, or musical instruments;
•     Of the scores the poet received from the five judges, the high and low scores are dropped, and the middle three are added together, giving the poet a total score of 0-30.