Galore Spits Poetry with Seattle Poetry Slam

SLAM History
A Slam is a competition of performance poets that is judged by randomly picked members of the audience. The focus is equally split between the content/writing of the poem AND how the poem is performed. This opens up the stage to a wide range of work and engages the audience as active participants. Because of its format of inclusiveness, Slam has been referred to as the “Democratization of Poetry”.

Daemond Arrindell is the Slammaster for Seattle and five-time coach for the Seattle National Slam team. The man who’s been pulling the levers behind the curtains of the great and powerful Seattle Slam for 4 years. He is a Poet, organizer, activist and all around nice guy.

Daemond is in this for the love of the word: written and spoken, and its power to alter the emotional state of being. Currently, he is heading up a Spoken-Word residency at the men’s correctional facility in Monroe, Wa, is a faculty member of Freehold Theatre/Studio lab teaching performance poetry and spoken word and is Seattle Poetry Slam’s nominee for Poet Populist.

Karen Finneyfrock - published poet, former Slammaster of the Seattle Poetry Slam, teacher andcommunity organizer. Karen has rocked stages from both behind the scenes and in front of the mike. Karen began her love affair with spoken word as a member of the ‘99 Washington, D.C. National Slam Team. After moving to Seattle in 2001 she became a recurring feature at the Seattle Poetry Festival; toured West Coast colleges with Word Core (Buddy Wakefield, Eitan Kadosh and Gregory Hischak); wrote and performed parts in C.R. Avery’s hip hop opera to crowds in San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.; and has been a featured performer at poetry venues all across the country including the National Poetry Slam, Louder Arts/Bar 13 (NY), Berkeley Poetry Slam (CA), and The Naropa Institute (CO).

Jodie Knowles - actress, make up artist, hair stylist, poet and host - Jodie can do it all. In her first year of slam competition, Jodie earned a spot on the Grand Slam stage and won over the the crowd with heart, sincerity and her own personal truths. She extends the same to all the poets who touch the stage at the Seattle Slam. Jodie has recently become a board member of the Bent Writing Institute.

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