Brain Dead Poets Society

01/25/2012

Hey so there is going to be a poetry slam tonight. Sorry for sharing this at the last minute. Hope you all make it. I am sorry I have been so unorganized. But tonight should still be fun.

12/13/2011

so sorry everyone for not having the poetry slam on the 9th but we will have it (the slam) on the 21st of Dec

12/01/2011

Granted, it's not poetry related, but we here at Brain Dead Poets Society fully advocate anything that's a change from the norm here in Halifax.

11/29/2011

Listening to this right now. It's on Spotify, but the track listing is all effed up.

Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness is a 1997 spoken word tribute album performed by various artists in tribute to late beat poet Jack Kerouac. Kerouac died at the age of 47 from cirrhosis of the liver, brought on by excessive alcohol consumption . The star-filled album features performances of Kerouac's wo...

11/29/2011

Working on the logistics of a head-to-head haiku slam. Like this status if this is something you would want to watch or participate in at a later date.

11/28/2011

11/28/2011

11/28/2011

Be sure to also check out Sommer Browning's website.

http://asthmachronicles.com/

Apartment poetry reading to kick off AWP 2008 (Sommer Browning & Matt Henriksen).

11/27/2011

Gil Scott-Heron's work from the '70s is still relevant today.

A humorous little poem by the great Gil Scott-Heron.

11/27/2011

I want some bongos.

11/27/2011

If you only watch one of these videos that we put in your news feed, it should totally be this one.

A 13-year-old boy scores perfect 10s as the sacrificial poet for the Indie Grand Slam final round at Tourettes Without Regrets. Filmed and edited by Zero Coo...

11/27/2011

I think this would be categorized as Neo-Beat Video Illustrated Blues Poetry.

Beat time traveler Hedwig Gorski named performance poetry in Austin, Texas, as the driving force behind the Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project in the 1980s...