downtown Madison, WI

After a year of Win & You’re In bouts, SlamMasterConferences and a rack of other requirements filled in order to get their teamsto the National Poetry Slam, we finally have a list of competitors!!!

The following teams are IN, in no particular order (as of June 11, 2008):

*listingis State/City of Slam Venue ~ Name of Slam ~ SlamMaster/Mistress:

1. Honolulu ~ HawaiiSlam ~ Kealoha

2. Salt Lake ~ Salt City Slam ~ Jesse Parent
3. San Antonio ~ PuroSlam ~ Jason Gossard
4. Worcester ~ Worcester Poets Asylum ~ Bill Macmillan Robert Gill
5. Chicago ~ Mental Graffiti ~ Tim Stafford
6. Fayetteville ~ Ozark poetry Slam ~ Doug Shields
7. Amarillo ~ Slamarillo ~ Jose Raul Rodarte
8. New Paltz ~ Slamtopia ~ Angel Aviles
9. New York ~ Urbana ~ Shappy
10. Albuquerque ~ Albuquerque ~ Don McIver
11. Wailuku ~  MauiSlam ~  Dave/Chela Coennen
12. Denver ~ Denver Mercury Slam ~ Jen Rinaldi
13. Kalamazoo ~ Poets Anonymous K-Zoo ~ Todd Bannon
14. Houston ~ Houston Poetry Slam ~ Bro. Said

15. Buffalo ~ Nickel City Poetry Slam ~ Gabrielle Bouliane
16. Richmond ~ Richmond Nahuatl ~ Daniel Custodio
17. Boise ~ Boise Poetry Slam ~ Cheryl Maddalena
18. Milwaukee ~ Mecca ~ Dasha Kelly
19. Sacramento  Life Sentence Slam ~ Van OBryan (-GO)
20. Dallas ~ Dallas Poetry Slam ~ Rock Baby

21. St. Paul ~ Soap Boxing ~ Matthew Rucker
22. Silver City ~ Silver City Slam ~ Sam Castello
23. Minneapolis ~ Minneapolis Poetry Slam ~ Allison Broeren
24. Berkeley ~ Berzerkeley Poetry Slam ~ Charles Ellik/ Emma Gomez
25. Lincoln ~ No Coast Writers Collective ~ Ryan Tewell
26. Seattle ~ Seattle Poetry Slam ~ Deamond Arrindell
27. Paris ~ France Poetry Slam ~ Pilot le hot
28. Killeen ~ Rhyme or Die ~ John Miller
29. Cleveland ~ Cleveland Poetry Slam ~ Tom Noy
30. New York ~ Nuyorican Poets Cafe ~ Mahogany Browne
31. Portland ~ Second Tuesday Slam ~ Nathan Amadon
32. Hampshire ~ Hampshire County Slam Collective ~ Sean Conlon
33. Denver ~ Nuba ~ Suzie Q/ Bobby LeFebre
34. Boston ~ Boston Cantab ~ Simone Beaubien
35. Orlando ~ Broken Speech Slam ~ j Bradley
36. Durham ~  Hayti Heritage Center ~ Janella Sellers
37. Detroit ~ Bytethis Poetry Series ~ Cassie Poe
38. Eureka ~ Accident Slam ~ Therese Keslin-FitzMaruice
39. Richmond ~ SlamRichmond ~ Felicia Winston
40. Charlotte ~ SlamCharlotte ~ Inkera/Bluz
41. Lincroft ~ Loser Slam ~ Chad Anderson
42. OK City ~ OK City ~ Lauren zuniga
43. Manchester ~ Poetry Slam @ Bridge Cafe ~ Mark Palos
44. Tucson ~ Ocotillo Slam ~ Lindsay Miller
45. Montevallo Montevallo Poetry Slam ~  Kirk Hardesty
46. Lafayette ~ Creative Heat Poetry Slam ~ Yahfu
47. Austin ~ Ruta Maya ~ Erin Livingston
48. Bryan ~ Revolution Cafe ~ Stephen Sargent
49. Decatur ~ Art Amok ~ Karen Garrabrant
50. Austin ~ Southflavas ~ Brian Francis
51. Phoenix ~ Downtown ~ Jeremiah Blue
52. Withdrawn
53. Columbus ~ Columbus Writers Block   Scott Woods
54. New York ~ Louder Arts ~ Rachel McKibbens
55. Springfield ~ Well Fed Head ~ Mike Sowers 
56. Delray Beach ~ Dada Slam ~ Chris Imperial
57. Los Angeles ~ Da Poetry Lounge ~ Shihan
58. St. Louis ~ St. Louis Poetry Slam ~ Michael O'Brian
59. Ft. Worth ~ Ft. Worth Poetry Slam ~ Michael Guinn
60. Baton Rouge ~ Baton Rouge Poetry Slam ~ Xero Skidmore
61. Austin ~ Austin Poetry Slam ~ Mike Henry
62. Mesa ~ Essenzaslam ~ The Klute
63. Totonto ~ Toronto Poetry Slam ~ David Silverberg
64. Columbus ~ Columbus Black Pearl ~ Will Evans
65. San Diego ~ San Diego Slam ~ Chris Wilson
66. Boston ~ Boston Lizard Lounge ~ Jeff Robinson
67. Atlanta ~ Poetry Atlanta ~ Bryan Patillo
68. White Plains ~ White Plains Poetry Slam ~ Zork
69. Flagstaff ~ Flagstaff Poetry Slam ~ John Catier
70. Detroit ~ Detroit EchoVerse ~ Johnny Jenkins
71. Vancouver ~ VanSlam ~ Lisa Slater
72. Oakland ~ Oakland Poetry Slam ~ Dahled
73. Philadelphia ~ The FUZE ~ Sherod Smallman
74. Charlotte ~ Respect Da Mic ~ Kelly Quinn
75. Palatine ~ Palatine Poetry Slam ~ Steven Whitfield
76. Chicago ~ Green Mill ~ Marc Smith
77. Houston ~ H-Town Slam ~ Marcelll Murphy

There are up to 84 team slots available this year. We do not have to use all ofthem. If we cut back, we cut back in groups of 4. So 80 or 76, etc.

Special Announcement: EC has decided to continue to accept applications from teams throughJune with the understanding that we can only accept new entries intothe tournament in groups of four. All will be added to the waiting listand as we get to the next "magic" number, we will admit additionalteams. If you think you missed deadlines, we can still get you in. Ifyou know of others who think they have missed deadlines, we can workpast that too. This is not a standard practice. This is a function ofthe EC voting earlier in the year to expand the tournament to 84 teams.This is not likely to be the case next year. No reason to expand thefield if we don't fill it this year.

If your slam is not on this list and you are certain you have done everythingyou were supposed to in order to compete this year, please shoot an to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it as soon as possibleso that this can be straightened out. Please know that the bout draw will notbe posted at this time, and that any inquiries regarding your slam team’s namebeing on this list may take 24-48 hours to resolve as we are looking at eachcase thoroughly to ensure adequate processing of your apps.

Thanks for your patience, SlamFamily. We can’t wait to seeyou in Madison, WI!!