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Black Superheroes by Ball State University at CUPSI 2019

Tonight at the Cantab, it’s a CUPSI warmup slam! Teams from Emerson College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Northeastern University, and Lesley University will face off in a fierce competition to prepare for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational next month. And before the show, we’ll have a generative writing workshop led by Sophia Holtz.

Loyce Gayo’s poem “How We Forget,” an act of critical remembrance, telling as theory/telling as embodied performance as theory/telling as embodied performance as communal engagement as theory, & the integration of feeling and knowledge. [popular artifact]

My poetry team is trying to get to Houston in April for the national college slam tournament. Normally, we rely on grants from the university to cover most of our travel/lodging costs. This year, however, California has an academic boycott of Texas due to the state’s anti-LGBT laws, keeping us from acquiring funding. This is unfortunate, as it is interfering with our entirely QTPOC team from competing! If you could spare any money, that would be super helpful of reaching our goal of $6,000. There are 10 days left! 

Tonight at the Cantab, it’s the CUPSI Warmup Slam! Teams from Emerson College, Wheelock College, Wellesley College, and Smith College will face off in a 4x4 poetry slam before they head off to compete in Philadelphia next month. Featuring sacrificial poems from UMass Boston and four-time Emerson CUPSI competitor Kieran Collier as your host, you don’t want to miss this slam.

Every year, UT Spitshine sends a team of 5 poets to CUPSI (a national collegiate level poetry competition). Support the team by donating and sharing the fundraiser! Any amount helps <3