Every Wednesday at
The Starry Plough
3101 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, California
Call (510) 841-2082 for more info.
Driving directions by MapQuest™ Sign-up to read at 7:30pm
Show starts at 8:30pm
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If you are looking for poets to perform at your school, university, event, or venue, contact Charles (who handles the booking of Team Berkeley, The Berkeley Slam Squad, and many other talented poets).
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ABOUT
YOUR HOSTS
Charles Ellik  Charles Ellik has been instrumental in
launching poetry slams, open mics, and spoken word events
in the
Bay Area
and in in his native southern California. He is an accomplished
writer, visual artist (in addition to his paintings, much
of the graphic artwork done for the slam is his work),
and slam coach. He has led slam teams from Berkeley, San
Francisco, and Oakland to victory. He has toured the world
with his poetry, appearing on BBC Radio and in The New
York Times. He is a board member of NorCal Spoken Word
and was the tournament chair of the 2003 New Word Series.
Betsy
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Coming Soon!
Dani Eurynome
 Dani Eurynome has worked on poetry slams
since 1997, starting her volunteer work as a merch clerk
at the
San Francisco
Slam held at the Cafe du Nord. She was a huge part of the Bay Area
spoken word scene subsequently, becoming
a regular co-host at The Berkeley Slam, former co-host of
Second Sundays in San Francisco, and working as publicist
for two of the most successful East Bay poetry shows, The
Berkeley Slam and Tourettes Without Regrets (as well as The
New Word Series and The Western Regional Slam). She has
represented many spoken word artists as a booking agent
and manager and is currently on hiatus.
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