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Prize Money Brings Out Large Crowd to Roswell's Poetry Slam
This year's first place prize was $1,000.
‘Slammin’ In The Suburbs’ has become one of Roswell’s most popular events, not only by February's Roswell Roots standards, but in general; and this year Oak Morse took home top honors from the event for his impromptu poetry. A standing room only crow packed the Roswell Historic Cottage for the 9th annual Roswell Poetry Slam during February. Teenagers, hipsters, thespians, poets and everything in between showed up to experience the poetic mastery by some of the best ‘slammers’ in the industry, according to the city. Award-winning spoken word artist, Ayodele Heath, was once again the host and kept the fast paced poetry competition moving smoothly throughout the night. "With over 48 expressive performances in just under three hours, we …
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Anne Murray Fallon
8:51 am on Thursday, January 26, 2012
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