MN SPOKEN WORD ASSOCIATION (MNSWA)

10/01/2014

Congrats to MNSWA. Chosen as one of the winners of the St. Paul Knight Arts Challenge! And congrats to all our fellow awardees.

Today, we are excited to announce the 42 winners of this year’s St. Paul Knight Arts Challenge. Our first year of the contest in St. Paul saw the highest per capita response for any arts challenge in history, with 868 submissions! Ideas poured in from all corners of the community and across all disc…

04/06/2013

The Land of 10,000 Flows 2012 Middle School Finals.

Livia performs in the Middle School Team bouts at MNSWA's SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival 2012, for the youth poetry slam state championships. Recorded at the New…

04/06/2013

The Youth Poetry Festival has kicked off. MS + HS 1st round of Prelims completed. Join us at 6pm for Finals at Music Box Theatre.

04/05/2013

Special guests at SAY WORD! include Kellie Rae, Mike Dreams, SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE, Rough Riders, BUGS, Lil Shaun, Ovadiel, Lew Hill + more.

04/05/2013

SAY WORD! 2012 Middle School Team Finalists.

04/05/2013

Donte Collins is on fire at the 2012 SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival. Don't miss this year's Festival tomorrow at Minneapolis Central Library + Music Box Theatre.

Donte Collins performs in the High School Team bouts at MNSWA's SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival 2012, for the youth poetry slam state championships. Recorded at…

04/05/2013

Check out fierce young poet, Maggie McClun, last year's Middle School Individual Champion. !

Maggie McClun, Middle School Individual Champion, performs at MNSWA's SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival 2012, for the youth poetry slam state championships. Maggie…

04/03/2013

Tell your story! SAY WORD! 2013 • April 6th • Minnesota's Middle School + High School Youth Poetry Slam Championships. 11am - 9pm at Minneapolis Central Library and Music Box Theatre.

Middle and high school students from across the Twin Cities area performed at the SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 21, 2012.

04/03/2013

SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival only 3 days away! 2x as big as last year, this year's youth poetry slam state championships will be amazing. Join us at the downtown Minneapolis Central Library and Music Box Theatre on April 6th. More info...http://mnspokenword.net/

03/29/2013

In case you're confused. The (K.)N.E.W. MN Youth Poetry Slam Series, headed by TruArtsSpeak, is to qualify poets to travel to the BNV Youth Poetry Festival. The Finals are tonight at Heart of the Beast. 7pm. The SAY WORD! MN Youth Poetry Festival, headed by MNSWA, is a one day youth Slam Festival with middle school and high school teams competing for the state championship. SAY WORD! is on April 6th at the Minneapolis Central Library + Music Box Theatre. Support both! Support the Youth! So we can continue to have one of the strongest Spoken Word communities in the country.

03/26/2013

E.G. Bailey + Sha Cage featured tonight at U of M Roschester's weekly series UMR CONNECTS, with special guest SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE. 7pm.