CAMPUS NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 1, 2007
Poet CP Maze Takes Top
Honors in Sherman’s Spine Tingling Slam
Fourteen of the Upstate’s hottest poets joined
Sherman students and other slam enthusiasts at
the college’s second Spine Tingling Poetry Slam
on February 24 in the Showroom at Hub-Bub in
Downtown Spartanburg.
The event raised more than $1,500 for student
scholarships at Sherman College. Check out the
photos
here.
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Sherman student Dee Dee
Brown, who helped organize
the slam, talks with
second-place winner Tavis
Brunson and host
Kimberly Simms. |
Poet CP Maze (Charles Perry
Jr.) won first place, taking home $300.
Second-place winner was Tavis Brunson, who
earned $200, and third place winner was
Mariangela Mihai, who took home $100. Kimberly
Simms of Wits End Poetry and Greenville
Slammaster hosted the event.
A poetry slam is, simply put, the competitive
art of performance poetry as seen on television
and in coffee houses across the nation. A slam
puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance,
which encourages poets to focus on what they are
saying and how they are saying it.
Members of the audience and designated judges
evaluated poets for their three-minute, original
constructions, without the use of props,
costumes or musical instruments. The numerical
scores the poets received from the judges were
tallied, and the top three poets were awarded
cash prizes.
Go to
www.sherman.edu/poetryslam for registration,
slam rules and other details. For more
information, e-mail Karen Rhodes, Director of
Public Relations (krhodes@sherman.edu)
or call 864-578-8770, ext. 242.
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