Pa. - Bucknell University will host its first Invitational Poetry Slam Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in the Bison, located on the ground floor of the Langone Center.
Admission is free.
The slam will feature performances by Regie Cabico, Alix Olson and Roger Bonair-Agard, of the Nuyorican Poetry Caf in Manhattan. The three poets, who have competed for the National Poetry Slam championship, will perform their own poems and moderate the festivities. Bucknell students also will perform their own individual and collaborative poems. To replicate a true poetry slam, judges will be selected at random from the audience and the Bison will be outfitted with a sound-system and lights. Slam poetry originated in a Chicago saloon in the mid-1980s with the idea of livening up the art and bringing it back to a popular audience.