Jive Poetic meets Omar Holmon on April 23, 2017!

Because the last pairing sold out completely, we now strongly recommend all interested audience members to buy an advance ticket (for a discount!).

 

Page Meets Stage takes place at The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, just south of Bleecker St.) starting promptly at 6:00 pm! Tickets are available here.

Jive Poetic received his BA in Media Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has performed his work in venues ranging from the Australian House of Parliament to the Tom Thumb Theater in Kent, England. He was also one of two poets selected by the US Embassy to represent American slam poetry during an international cultural exchange program in Warsaw, Poland. Jive Poetic has collected grand slam championship titles from Pensacola, Florida to Munich, Germany. In 2003, Jive Poetic was a member of the Nuyorican Poet’s Café’s National Slam team ranking second in the nation as a team, and 10th as an individual. In 2004, he was a member of the Providence Rhode Island Slam Team; in 2005 he was a member of the NYC Louder Arts Slam Team; in 2006 he was a member of the Brooklyn National Slam Team. In 2011 he served on the advisement panel at the Australian National Slam Summit. He was featured on season four of TVONE’s LEXUS VERSES AND FLOW. He is the co-founder of The SOUNDBITES POETRY FESTIVAL, the only performance poetry festival in New York City, and currently hosts the open slam at Nuyorican Poet’s Café. When he is not on tour or hosting, Jive Poetic teaches performance poetry and hip – hop workshops to at risk youth in New York City and surrounding tri-state area. Recently, Jive released his third poetry album, PERPENDICTIVE, and is currently an MFA candidate in The Pratt Institute’s creative writing and activism program.

Omar Holmon started out doing poetry just to see what he could get away with saying at upscale events. After 6 years he has represented New Jersey (Loserslam) and New York (Nuyorican & Urbana) at the National Poetry Slam. Omar has been on final stage at Nationals (placing second in 2014) and Rustbelt. He has also been on Ted X, Button Poetry, Verses and Flow, and even a commercial for Laphroaig whiskey. All of which is to say ya mans is nice and ain’t much else to prove. Omar can be found contributing essays on Black Nerd Problems, a website he co-founded with Will Evans. Meaning, whenever you see a nerd talking comics or cartoons, look in their fandom… you’ll see Omar.