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For me, Daphne is the epitome of a woman embodying the incredible durability required to be a sensitive human being combined with the piercing insight of the vulnerable. She lives in the hearts of all people who take risks and pay the ultimate price. Her work is tightly crafted, yet rife with the screams of the wounded, deeply ironic and incredibly poignant. Please check out her two new books, Fucking Daphne and Kissing Dead Girls.
After founding the site in 2000 as a school project while studying Digital Video Production, LivePoets.com has been a way for me to catalog the best in the national poetry slam community. It's been a pleasure to serve this community in this regard, and I greatly appreciate the support of all the regular users of the site. I look forward to continuing this relationship.. but it's going to take a different focus in the months to come. After a lengthy relationship with Poetry Slam Incorporated, the national non-profit which is responsible for hosting all official National Poetry Slam events, the company is moving in a direction with their footage that does not allow for free distribution. Their works are terrific multi-camera productions, and continue to be for sale, and are the largest collection in the nation at this time. As a result, I have had to remove the footage I used to host here out of respect for our long relationship. At the moment, I am on a short "Video Safari" in the Northeast, touring some of the top slam venues in the nation and capturing footage of the current players in the game to add to the LivePoets brand. Over the next few months, you can expect to see lots and LOTS of updates -- new poets, MANY new clips, and some new features of the site. Please keep coming back for more! Livepoets is please to once again work toward becoming your premiere site for freely streamed new slam poetry! Best regards, Gabrielle Bouliane Founder, Livepoets.com multimediagrl@hotmail.com
Thanks to the skills of Christopher Holmok, we are pleased to present you with an entirely new version of livepoets.com. This new design, in addition to being far more stable, should prove even simpler to navigate to find the spoken word artists you love. To become a part of the site, please check the "about" page. Content will be re-built as time permits -- if your favorite pieces are missing, or there's something you'd really like to see, please let me know at multimediagrl@hotmail.com for fastest response. Enjoy! Gabrielle Bouliane Founder