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More Information The Northbay Poetry Slam is coming back from the new years and kicking off 2013 with the well known poet Baruch Porras-Hernandez! And this year, for the first time, the NBPS is preparing to send poets to national competitions. Which means this months slam will help determine who is eligible to compete! Ask for more details! *************************************************************** Northbay Poetry Slam Sunday, January 2013 HopMonk Tavern, Sebastopol 230 Petaluma Ave, 95472 Featuring Baruch Porras-Hernandez! Hosted By BeSage (Brianna Sage) All Ages Cash Prizes $5 Cover Doors 8:00PM Show 8:30PM *************************************************************** NBPS - What's it all about? The Northbay Poetry Slam was first created in 2010 and has been bringing amazing talent to Sebastopol, CA every since. Poets of all ages and levels of experience are welcome to share the stage. The Northbay Poetry Slam takes place every month, always on a Sunday, at HopMonk Tavern Sebastopol. The first part on the evening is the Open Mic, where anyone and everyone are welcome to sign up to share their own poems or other people poems. This is not a scored event and no prizes are given. Any one wishing to participate in the open mic must sign up at 8:00pm the night of the event. The second part of the evening is our featured poet. One poet or a group of poets perform a 25-minute set of original work for the audience. These poets are generally national touring poets or those who have won past competition and are always amazing and awe inspiring. If one is interesting in featuring they can send samples of their work to Brianna at Brianna.marie.sage@gmail.com The Third and final part of the evening is the Poetry Slam. One may sign up the night of the event at 8pm. The poetry slam is timed and scored by 5 random judges from the audience. There is 3 rounds to the slam, a poet does one poem per a round with a 3 minute and 10 second time limit. The top three poets with the highest points at the end of the 3rd round are the winners. *************************************************************** More on Our Feature.... Baruch Porras-Hernandez Baruch Porras-Hernandez’s work appears in Aim for the Head anthology of Zombie Poetry –Write Bloody Publishing and Divining Divas – Lethe Press. He has work forthcoming in Capturing Fire Slam National Queer Anthology and Tandem anthology of the LitSlam contest winners for 2012. His manuscript was a finalist for the Write Bloody Publishing national poetry contest. He has featured in Washington D.C., New York City, Canada, a two time feature at the Legendary Berkeley Poetry Slam and all over the San Francisco bay area, which he calls home. He is the head organizer and curator for The San Francisco Queer Open Mic. He was born in Toluca, Mexico. *************************************************************** More On this Event: Like Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/northbaypoetryslam Follow Us Through HopMonk: http://www.hopmonk.com/ More On Your Host: www.facebook.com/besageproductions\