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Sunday, April 15, 2007

SNC poetry slam a hit

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Copyright 2012 North Lake Tahoe Bonanza. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. April, 14 2007 2:26 pm

SNC poetry slam a hit

Left, Marnie McArthur puts down her judging card after being harassed by the crowd for her last score at the Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night. Above, Riannon Skelly passionately expressed her feelings about the behavior of women and men during the first annual poetry slam. Skelly was awarded third place in the slam.
Left, Marnie McArthur puts down her judging card after being harassed by the crowd for her last score at the Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night. Above, Riannon Skelly passionately expressed her feelings about the behavior of women and men during the first annual poetry slam. Skelly was awarded third place in the slam.ENLARGE
Left, Marnie McArthur puts down her judging card after being harassed by the crowd for her last score at the Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night. Above, Riannon Skelly passionately expressed her feelings about the behavior of women and men during the first annual poetry slam. Skelly was awarded third place in the slam.
Bonanza Photo - Carrie Richards Marnie McCarthur puts down her judging card after being harassed by the crowd for her last score at the Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night.
Bonanza Photo - Carrie Richards Marnie McCarthur puts down her judging card after being harassed by the crowd for her last score at the Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night.ENLARGE
Bonanza Photo - Carrie Richards Marnie McCarthur puts down her judging card after being harassed by the crowd for her last score at the Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night.

Pumped up from a recent first-place finish at a poetry slam in Berkeley, Calif., Sam Pierstorff emcees Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night.
Pumped up from a recent first-place finish at a poetry slam in Berkeley, Calif., Sam Pierstorff emcees Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night.ENLARGE
Pumped up from a recent first-place finish at a poetry slam in Berkeley, Calif., Sam Pierstorff emcees Sierra Nevada College's first annual Poetry Slam Friday night.

Almost 200 literary buffs crammed into Sierra Nevada College's Patterson Dining Hall Friday night to watch 17 local poets battle it out with rhyme, rhythm and verse.

"It was a wonderful event, with so many people," said SNC Media Liasion Marnie McArthur. "A really energetic night."

Prize money went to the top-three slam poets, two of whom used stage names: third place went to SNC student Riannon Skelly, second place, "Rita G." from Carson City and the first-place prize of $100 went to "Kai," an SNC student.

The evening was emceed by Sam Pierstoff, editor of the Quercus Review and producer of the Ill List Invitational Poetry Slam in Modesto, Calif.

Slam Poetry was invented by Chicago construction worker and poet Marc Smith in the late 1980s. Since then, slam events have been held throughout the country, and featured in the HBO original series Def Poetry Slam.




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