Poets Anonymous K-Zoo

I have some bad news for the PAKZOO open mic and poetry slam supporters: poets, fans, and friends - we're shutting down our shows in all their forms.

Bring your creativity and words with you!

Poets Anonymous K'Zoo presents a monthly workshop and competition for teens interested in writing and performing their original poetry.

Leave your egos at the door, but bring your creativity and words with you! Local poetry slam experts will coach teens through the process of writing, revising, and performing poetry for fun and competition.

The Individual World Poetry Slam (aka iWPS) is an annual poetry slam championship for individual poets (as opposed to the National Poetry Slam, which is for teams). This year iWPS will be held in Berkeley, California - October 8-10. PAKZOO sent a poet (Karrie Waarala) to iWPS for the first time last year. We would like to send another poet to the 2009 iWPS event.

From the TC Palm:

National poetry event slams into West Palm Beach

Cool quotation from article:

Ott credits the National Slams with a surge in interest in poetry. “Poetry, especially with young people, has been completely reinvigorated, much like Harry Potter turned young people on to reading again,” he said.

Check out this article in the South Florida Metromix:

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=145744985728&h=lf2ji&u=dt4jt&ref=nf

Here is a sample: