River South Arts Festival
HALITERATURE BOOK LAUNCH
AND RIVER SOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL
Hear all about this Event on the That’s Shanghai: The Podcast (H.A.L. interview 23:30min into podcast)
More details after the jump….
Archived entries for SLAMHAI
HALITERATURE BOOK LAUNCH
SLAMHAI3 — Slam poetry for the people of the ‘Hai
Watch SLAMHAI3 on Vimeo.
That’s right all you haters: H.A.L. is going back to River South Art Center on December 3rd, with new and improved poets for a new and even less harmonious SLAMHAI3. And, oh, a new book: MIDDLE KINGDOM UNDERGROUND. End of the year party is on people! If by chance you missed last year’s poetry bash you may want to check it out here.
Full Press Release for SLAMHAI3 here.
Love
B.
The Queen of SLAMHAI!II Susie Gordon
Queen of SLAMHAI! Susie Gordon
Another year almost gone by, and another winner of the infamous SLAMHAI! Competition was tight this time around, not the least as ruling champion Mark Butler came back all the way from his cozy cocktail fueled comfort down in Thailand to defend the title. 10 poets started out in round 1, one stronger than the other. Susie Gordon, the flying Lasky brothers, Ginger wRong Chen, Mark Butler, Katrina Hamlin, Danielle LeClerc, Darcy Fischer, Willow Neilson, Hunter Braithwaite and Tom Mangione…
Superstars of SLAMHAI! 2010
September 22nd saw the first ever SLAMHAI! go down with a proud line-up of 6 poets, and a friendly though surprisingly dirty minded audience (you know who you are). All to our delight, goes without saying. We put our poets through three stages, producing highlights such as Kathrina slammin’ Bring da Ruckus, and Estelle improvising verses on pulling her skirt up in the world’s finest squatter toilets. Not to forget misfit Morris, Hunter (where is it?!), and Butler, whose musing on lesbians are a bit shocking even for this site (or even the Internet…) And last not least, our own Susie Q:
And everyone says
That poetry’s for losers, geeks, library goons,
But I’d rather have this than those modern tunes
Give me Ginsberg, give me Eliot (I don’t want to be an idiot).
It’s the papercuts that matter
When you think about it.
We couldn’t have said it better. Big thanks to all of you, poets and audience, for helping us make SLAMHAI! one of the coolest evenings Shanghai has seen since the glory days (Ho-Tom, Christian, Simon, Morgan, and Brother J – love you guys!). See you around Christmas for the next one, drop us an Email to get on our mailing list, editor@haliterature.com
Love
B.
