Originally broadcast on KUNM-FM, this is a conversation with Jasmine Cuffee and Amanda Sutton, two of a larger core of organizers for the Women of the World Poetry Slam 2015.  In this conversation, they talk with the host, Don McIver, about the state of slam, what it means to be competitive, and what its like to produce a festival in ABQ.

This is Spoken Word

Series curator talks with Michael Backus.  Michael's work has appeared in One Story, The Portland Review, The Sycamore Review, Exquisite Corpse, Verb, Storyhead, The High Hat, The Writer, and Hanging Loose. A novel, Double, was published in the Fall of 2011 by Xynobooks Publishing. He teaches creative writing, composition, and film studies classes at Marymount Manhattan College and fiction writing at Gotham Writer’s Workshop in New York City.

Intro/outro music created by Stereofloat (Creative Commons)


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