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Are you as excited as we are? Grand Slam is THIS SATURDAY!

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I think it is very hard to just spontaneously generate something. Often the difficulty is finding a topic, not in actually doing the writing. But if you just try something on a page, then you can recreate it in a reacting instant.

Ken Chen, interviewed by Sara Goudarzi for One (via nps2013)

What's cooler than attending our monthly open mics and slams? Being able to rep Wordsmiths wherever you go! Pre-order your original Wordsmiths T-shirt for only $7 before November 16th (we can't guarantee your size after that)!

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All of the videos from our September open mic and slam are up and public, including this video of Elliot Darrow's "Pocket Change," videos from our feature Starr Seward, and more! Be sure to keep checking back for more news and updates on our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter.

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Wow! We're up another 10 likes! Here is Resita performing her heartfelt piece to Nas during our open mic. Keep liking our fanpage for more videos from our September event!

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We really enjoyed ourselves at The Strivers Row performance at Duke last night and are so proud of our sister organization, Spoken Verb, for putting on such a fantastic show. Looking forward to more future collaborations with dynamite poets!

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We're up to 450 likes, so here's our first video featuring our second qualifier winner, Trey, performing "Grandfather"! Keep liking our fanpage for more videos from our September event!

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The Managing Director Application is Now Closed!

But we're looking forward to reading through the many applications we received and introducing our newest staff member at our open mic and slam next week. Don't forget to sign up!

Confused About the "No Repeat" Rule?

It's simple!

Say you perform Poem A in the first round of your first slam of the season, and Poem B in the second round, but you do not win the qualifier. The next time you slam (your second slam of the season) you may not use Poem A or Poem B in the first round. This does not necessarily mean that Poem C needs to have been written that month so long as the audience has not heard it in any slam in the current season. In the second round, however, you may use Poem A, Poem B, or any poem that you like (so long as it's within the rules, of course)! This pattern continues throughout the season so that in your third slam you may not use Poem A, B, or C in the first round, and so on until Grand Slam.

If you have any further questions you can email [email protected]. Don't forget to sign up for our September 14th open mic or slam!

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I had a horror of much of the distinctly unpleasant ‘political’ writing that I read in classrooms. These poems were taught from the perspective that writing that displayed a self-consciousness of language as an ideological apparatus, or that argued for certain kinds of cultural representation, was inherently worth reading. I am sympathetic to that stance. However, I often did not enjoy reading that work. Perhaps the claim for such writing was never beauty anyway. It was important even if it was not beautiful. But it is a challenge for a work of art to be effectively important if it is not pleasing, for the pleasing-but-unimportant is simply, well, more pleasing. I was about to write that I’d rather read the important stuff, even if it was unpleasant, but that’s exactly it: I’m human; I wouldn’t.

Sonnet L’Abbé, from an essay published on Lemon Hound (via nps2013)

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Are you the next UNC Wordsmiths Managing Director?

Remember, you have FIVE DAYS left to apply!

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Interested in being a part of an organization that promotes creative self-expression on UNC’s campus? Want to help us organize our monthly poetry open mics and slams? Apply for our open Managing Director position today!

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Don't wait until the last minute! This application is open until September 6th, but we have already received great responses!

Interested in being a part of an organization that promotes creative self-expression on UNC's campus? Want to help us organize our monthly poetry open mics and slams? Apply for our open Managing Director position today!

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Elliot Darrow - “God is Gay” (CUPSI 2013 Finals)

“Keep in mind, Jesus had two dads and turned out just fine.”

Performing for UNC Chapel Hill during the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

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Did the "Voices of Liberty" documentary make you want to hear more of the poems our slam team performed at CUPSI? Thanks to Button Poetry for featuring this video of 2013 member Elliot Darrow during Finals. More videos of the team to come in the future!

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Lauren Bullock - “Love Notes” (CUPSI 2013)

“When she broke your heart, did she also crack your spine so you would always fall in her direction?”

A beautiful love poem from Lauren Bullock of UNC Chapel Hill. UNC ended up placing fourth in the tournament.

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Did the "Voices of Liberty" documentary make you want to hear more of the poems our slam team performed at CUPSI? Thanks to Button Poetry for featuring this video of our current Executive Director from Semi-Finals. More videos of the team to come in the future!

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The official documentary of the Wordsmiths' trip to compete in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational 2013 where the UNC Slam Team placed in 4th of 59 teams from across the nation.

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