David is a poet from the back of beyond who creates poetry books from the detritus of established books, recycling them, adding his own poetics and saving them from the landfill. He is the man behind the David Merritt Poetry Experience.
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Named Best Female Poet at her first national poetry competition in 2008, Carrie Rudzinski has since performed her work across the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and India. Ranked 4th in the world at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam and 7th at the 2013 Individual World Poetry Slam, Carrie has represented Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles over the course of 11 national poetry competitions. In 2014, she taught Poetry and Performance at California State University Northridge in Los Angeles, California. Her work has appeared in The Legendary, Muzzle, Words Dance, OnMag, Catalyst, Alight, and University of California Press and she has published four collections of poems.
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Ben Stokes is New Zealand's 2014 National Slam Poetry Champion.
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Under the moniker of Tourettes, Dominic has released four critically acclaimed studio albums. In a former life, he was an MC battle- and slam-poetry champion. His writing has been published in everything from Vice (international) to New Zealand's leading literary journal, Landfall. He has has performed his spoken-word poetry in Australia, Europe, England, Japan, and America. He's shared stages with the likes of Homebrew and Sam Hunt and his first novel, Iceland, is due for release later this year through Steele Roberts.
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