Local Poets to Compete for Nationals
The Steel City Slam Off is this Friday.
Steel City Slam has been in full swing since September, and on Friday, performance poets will gather for a grand slam event that could send them to a national competition. Steel City Slam Off, Pittsburgh’s biggest slam poetry event, is this Friday at the Union Project in East Liberty. The slam poetry season runs from September through April. At the end of the season, the top 12 poets are chosen to participate in the Grand Slam. The top five Grand Slam winners compete in nationals, which are held in Charlotte, North Carolina this year. “That Grand Slam is kind of the biggest poetry event of the year, because it sends us to nationals against all the other cities,” said Tera McIntosh, a Steel City Slam poet who lives in Brookline. “We’re the …
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