I'm hoping that some of the kind souls will find this blog post and offer some advice.

I'm preparing to go on a six-city tour in September, performing my spoken word one-woman show, Portraiture.

I was wondering if any of you could offer any advice for venues or just traveling. I'll be in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St Louis (ish), and Toronto.

I look forward to hearing some sagacious words of wisdom. :)

Thanks,

Carissa Halston

get thee to the Women of the World Poetry Slam!

The Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps) is an all-woman PSI event created by women for women poetry slam competitors. Poets who live their lives as women will be eligible to participate in WOWps.

SWAN Day Organizer Deborah Magdalena Creates
A 3-Day "Spoken Soul Festival" in Miami

Deborah Magdalena is organizing her second SWAN Day event this year, an ambitious three-day Spoken Soul Festival in Miami, Florida. Check out an interview with Magdalena and learn more about the festival at: www.WomenArts.org/news/DeborahMagdalenaInterview.htm

From Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai ...

After many months of generating and honing work, my NEW CHAPBOOK "No Sugar Please: Poems on Love, Sex, and Other Mysteries" is HERE! To snag your copy, go to
www.yellowgurl.com/store!

**Girl Fest Hawaii** (November 7-15, 2008, Honolulu, HI) – A festival with a mission to prevent violence against women and girls through education and art – using influential media to change peer culture. Girl Fest Hawaii incorporates dance, spoken word, visual art, music concerts, workshops, a film festival, and a panel and lecture series to educate and to entertain. Performers may be of any genre and perform with any theme; submit samples of your work on CD, DVD, VHS, cassette tape, slides, film (photographic prints). NO FEE.

Grabbing this from Tara Betts' MySpace blog ...

"Author of the upcoming collection The Heart's Traffic (Red Hen Press, 2009) Ching-In Chen is a member of the ¡Ya Basta! Collective. The collective is looking for submissions for an anthology. If you don't have work already completed for this particular topic, they are looking for women and girls who would like to participate in a free online workshop with Ching-In. The deadlines and how to apply are below.

The ¡Ya Basta! Collective

Just discovered this site, and thought I'd spread the word ...

PoeticWorks is an online community of Spoken Word artists, musicians, and photographers.
www.poeticworks.com

You can upload/listen to underground DJs, singers, rappers, EmCees, Poets/Spoken Word artists, check out graffiti, art, pictures, and read 100s of poetry blogs and create your own and watch/upload original Spoken Word videos from our members.

Meet/Chat/IM great people from all over the US

Promote events and other poetry communities

Forwarding this on ... --Susan

hello friends, family, and global community!

we are writing to let you know about an exciting new non-profit organization called *spokenknowledge - *a unique organization devoted to the art of spoken word. we are a combination of grassroots, community organizing, and online communication... think of us as myspace/youtube meets social action done spoken word style. we invite you to check out our website at:

www.spokenknowledge.org

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*SPEAK UP SPEAK OUT!*

Forwarding on this interesting campaign to bring a little poetry into this frenetic election season ...

What would you do as President?

Now put that thought in poetic form!