The Guelph Poetry Slam (GPS) – 3rd Saturday of every month, @ the E-Bar!
A poetry slam is an interactive spoken-word poetry competition. Poets have 3 minutes to deliver their poem (with a 10 second grace period) and are judged by randomly selected members of the audience. SLAMs encourage audience participation – including cheering, booing, and even bribing of the judges to sway their point allotment. Each month the poetry slam winner receives a $100.00 cash prize.  GPS also features an open-mic and a professional spoken word artist each month. Anyone can sign-up to perform the night of.  See a complete list of slam rules.

The 2012 Guelph Poetry Slam Team!
Congratulations to the members of the 2012 GPS team!  They are: Beth Anne Fischer, Fannon, Macer, Sean Warren, and Rafay. In October 2012 they will travel to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) in Saskatoon.  There they will compete against slam teams from across the County, in our National Poetry Slam! Listen to the live radio broadcast of the last round of the slam and the featured poets – the Ottawa Fountain at http://www.cfru.ca/recordings/66. Click on the “Back in the USSR” starting at 9pm.

Become a Member of the 2013 Guelph Poetry Slam Team!
Season 5 of GPS starts in May 2012 and runs till January 2013.  To qualify for the Finals competition on January 19th you need to slam twice in the season and be one of the top 12 slammers from the season.  The top four scoring poets from Finals will become members of the slam team.  The fifth place poet will be the team alternate.  The team alternate is encourage to participate as a member of the team as much as possible.

Scores

Accurate as of the April 22, 2012.

FINALS April Slam
1. Beth Anne Fischer – 87.4
2. Fannon – 85.9
3. Macer – 85.7
4. Sean Warren – 84.2
5. Rafay – 83.6
6. Jaded – 53.6
7. Micheal – 51.4

March Slam
1. Fannon – 58.2
2. Dan Murray aka Dan aka Dan Murray – 57.6
3. Sean O’Gorman – 57.2
4. Sean Warren – 56.3
5. Matthew Dryden
6. J Rah Day
7. Michael Hix
8. Jaded
9. Knowledge Gonzales
10. Bryton

February Slam
1. P.O.E. – 58.9
2. Kay’la Fraser – 57.8
3. Tomy Bewick – 57.4
4. David James Hudson – 56.9
5. Fannon – 27.9
6. Lisa Baird – 27.4
7. Micheal Hix – 27.0
8. Rafay – 26.9
9. Matthew Warnholtz – 26.1
10. Matt Soltys – 25.8
11. N’tare – 24.9
12. Jaded – 24.7

January Slam
1. Rafay – 58.5
2. Kay’la Fraser – 58.1
3. Kinnery – 57.4
4. Dan aka
Dan Murry aka Dan – 56.7
5. Sean Warren – 28.5
6. Justin  - 28.3
7. Matthew Dryden – 28.2
8. Beth Anne – 27.9
9. Emily – 27.5
10. James – 25.2

December Slam
1. Jaded – 54.9
2. Macer – 54.0
3. Truth Is … – 53.4
4. Matthew Dryden – 47.6

November Slam
Head to Head Slam – winning poet P.O.E.

October Slam
1. Matthew Dryden – 54.8
2. Truth Is … – 54.8
3.  Beth Anne – 54.4
4. Meme – 53.9
5. Jaded – 52.3