An Echo in the Hills: Poetry Slam Competition and Performance with Allan Wolf

WHAT:  A Poetry Slam Competition (open to the public!) and Performance by past National Sonnet Slam Champion, Allan Wolf.

WHERE:  Mountain City Traditional Arts, 25 E. Main Street, Frostburg, Maryland

WHEN:  Monday, October 22nd, 7pm

A slam isn’t your ordinary poetry reading!  A slam is a head-to-head poetry competition… it is a spoken word live performance where the audience determines who rules the stage.

Mountain City Traditional Arts and AppIndie welcome Allan Wolf, author and past National Sonnet Slam Champion, as host of An Echo in the Hills:  Poetry Slam, Mountain Style, coming Monday October 22nd.

Come out and see a  performance from Allan and then let the local poets take their art to the stage… or… take the stage yourself!  An Echo in the Hills welcomes you to compete.  Experienced poets and novices alike are welcome.  Prizes will be awarded to the winners!

Information + rules for poets wishing to enter the slam:

1. Entry is open to all, no entry fee!
2. Original poetry only
3. No music
4. One poem at a time
5. 3 minutes limit per poem
6. There will be 3 rounds… bring 3 poems
7. All poems should fit the Slam Theme:  ‘Our Community, Your Vision’

See you at the slam!

Allan Wolf is an author, poet, performer and educator 
who lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and
three kids. After three years teaching at Virginia Tech,
Wolf became the Educational Director for Poetry Alive!,
a national touring company that presents theatrical
poetry shows for all ages. Wolf is also a member of The
Dead Poets, a musical trio who transform classic poetry
into toe-tapping tunes. An active organizer in the early
days of the poetry slam competitions, Wolf’s mission has
always been to take poetry to the people. His home town
made history in 1995 as the smallest city to ever win the
coveted National Poetry Slam Championship title. Wolf now
writes and presents full time. His books include The Blood-
Hungry Spleen and Other Poems About Our Parts (Candlewick
Press), and New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of
Discovery (Candlewick Press), a novel in verse chosen as
a School Library Journal Best Book, an ALA Best Book for
Young Adults, and an IRA Children’s Book Award Notable.
He is the author of a book about writing poems titled,
Immersed In Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent &
Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet’s Life (Lark
Books) and a new YA novel in verse titled Zane’s Trace
(Candlewick Press). Conducting more than one hundred
presentations every year, Allan Wolf is a veteran traveler
through all the diverse worlds of verse from poetry slams
to public schools, salons to saloons. And with literally
hundreds of poems committed to memory, Wolf is always ready
to spin out a stanza or two. Got rhyme?