Last year was a banner year for the U-Club Poetry Slam as features from Michael Ellison (from the champion Detroit/Hamtramck team), Regie Gibson, Emily Lawson and more our blessed our stage. All of that fire-power was not for nothing as the University of Michigan College Poetry Team went to Cleveland for the 2002 Championships and came home with not only some new friends, but a new reputation-- the champs. The team: ERIC SHIEH If you all get a chance, let em know you're proud. They were unbelievable, not just putting it down with power, but also keeping it poetic, reading from paper and all. Ask them, I'm sure they'll let you hear! But, this didn't come out of thin air now! The U-Club Poetry Slam™ held its first slam on September 21, 2000. From the beginning the slam offered students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to speak their mind using the language of poetry. The slam continued on through the 2000/2001 season with a great amount of fun, expression, and art. Each week there was music, an open mic, the slam, and a great variety of headlining poets. Those featured as headliners include Angie Colette Beatty and Dee Dee White of Soul(s)peak Grand Slam Finals On March 22, 2001, a standing room only audience at the University of Michigan Art Museum witnessed history in the making. The first ever campus Grand Slam Finals. 14 poets battled and slung verse to earn one of four available slots on the University of Michigan Slam Team. When the dust settled, the four poets were: Angie Beatty |
