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[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – 2018 National Win and You’re In Poetry Slam with Autumn Echo

WRFA Radio — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:33:15 +0000

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Autumn Echo stops by the WRFA studio to discuss the 2018 National Win & You’re In Poetry Slam competition in Jamestown.

Autumn Echo has put of poetry slam on the map in Jamestown NY with a series of events hosted by her Pulse Poetry Slam group. She’s been able to leverage the local interest in Poetry Slams to help make Jamestown the regional location on Feb. 24 for a national poetry slam competition.

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On Saturday, Feb. 24, performance poetry will reach a new height in Jamestown, NY.

Pulse Poetry Slam has been invited to host the 2018 National Win & You’re In Poetry Slam, a qualifier event for poetry slam teams in this region of the US. Poetry slam teams representing Buffalo, NY, Pittsburgh, PA, Columbus, OH, and Cleveland, OH will travel to Jamestown to participate in this event, which will decide which teams will have a spot to compete in the 2018 National Poetry Slam, hosted in Chicago, IL this summer.

The National Poetry Slam is the largest & longest running team poetry slam in the world, and teams from across the country will participate.

A poetry slam is a performance poetry competition. Poets who participate in a slam read or recite original poetry in front of an audience, and 5 randomly selected judges, who are generally individuals simply attending the event as spectators. These judges attribute numerical scores to the performances, and cumulative scores from multiple rounds and performances decide the winner of the slam. The performances are judged on the content of the poems, the performance itself, the impact, style, and overall way that the performances move the judges. Poetry slams are energetic, engaging, and fun. They combine performance art with the excitement and unpredictability of a competition, and force us to ask the question, “How do you judge art?”

This qualifier slam will be hosted at the Studio Metro Underground Theatre, located at 316 East 4th Street in Jamestown, NY and will begin at 7 p.m. In addition to the team slam, there will be an open mic for participants interested in performing their own original poetry at the event. There will also be live music from local musicians. This event is free to attend!

For more information about the 2018 National Win & You’re In Poetry Slam, please visit facebook.com/pulsepoetryslam, email pulsepoetryslam@gmail.com, or call 602-339-6980. We hope to see you on Saturday, Feb. 24th, 7:00PM at the Studio Metro Underground Theatre for this exciting event!

[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Autumn Echo Talks Pulse Poetry Slam

WRFA Radio — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:24:31 +0000

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Originally airing Friday, Oct. 27, 2017.

WRFA’s Jason Sample talks with Autumn Echo, founder of Pulse Poetry Slam, about her local group of slam poets and several different events they have scheduled for the month of November, including a special performance on Thursday, Nov. 2 at the Infinity Arts Cafe.

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[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Pulse Poetry Slam One Year Anniversary Interview

WRFA Radio — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:59:46 +0000

Originally airing Tuesday June 9 during the Local Rush Hour on WRFA – with replay on Friday, June 12 during Arts on Fire.

Pulse Poetry Slam founder and organizer Autumn Echo and featured slam poet Autumn Bradley stop by the WRFA studios to talk with Jason Sample and share details about Pulse Poetry Slam’s one-year anniversary show on June 13, 2015 at Infinity Visual and Performing Arts. Free all-ages show open to the public.

Big Read Kickoff Featuring Pulse Poetry Slam is Thursday Night at Prendergast

WRFA Radio — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:13:21 +0000

Autumn Echo Swanson, founder of Pulse Poetry Slam and emcee for a poetry slam at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 26 at Prendergast Library, shows a promotional T-shirt to Allison Brake, library visitor, and Liz Gruber, librarian. The library’s poetry slam will kick off this year’s Big Read featuring “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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JAMESTOWN – The Prendergast Library will host a poetry slam at 6 p.m. tonight kick off the 2015 Big Read featuring “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Autumn Echo Swanson, founder of Pulse Poetry Slam and office coordinator at Infinity Visual and Performing Arts, Inc., will emcee the event.

A poetry slam is a competition using elimination rounds for the reading or performance of original poetry or the work of others.

Each participant will present two poems, including one relating to “The Great Gatsby,” the 1920s, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Poems will be judged on a numeric scale by selected members of the audience. Prizes and refreshments will be provided, and everyone is welcome.

From March 23 through April 24, The Big Read will also be incorporated into other activities at the library such as a family literacy challenge, early learning story time, first years story time, Lego Club, Thrifty Crafters, and movie night.

Details will be available at www.prendergastlibrary.org and on the March and April programming calendars at all public service desks.

The Big Read comes to the region through a unique partnership between SUNY Fredonia and the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

Information about The Big Read is also available at www.fredonia.edu/bigread or neabigread.org.