Room opens at 6:30 p.m. (PDT)
Sign up list will be open from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Slam starts at 7:00 p.m.
This is a free event.
Your host and Emcee will be Scorpiana Xlent!
Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
Register through Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/pcsjtix
Eventbrite is only allowing us a limited amount of tickets so feel free to message San Jose Poetry Slam or Scorpiana if you need the link to the zoom room before 7, we will be unable to assist with links once the show starts.
You can sign up to compete via the chat box in the zoom room.
If you're not competing, we could use judges.
Please remember to submit a quick audience survey to help us improve our logistics and content and report to our funders and sponsors. Here is the link to the survey: https://bit.ly/3M63VqH
T. Lydia McKinney "The Prodigy Truth" is black non-binary performing artist, writer, and domestic violence survivor based in Houston, Texas. They are a poetry slam finalist in both San Antonio (2022, 2023) and Houston, Texas (2022, 2024). T. Lydia attended Texas State University, where they majored in Communication Studies with a minor in Theatre. They previously worked for the State of Texas, having served as a child abuse investigator and support professional for the Texas School for the Blind. T. Lydia now serves a meditative guide and practitioner, full-time writer, and speech and debate consultant. They have been previously published in Querencia Press' Winter 2023 and Trans/ NB anthologies, Spotlight Poetry's Young, Gifted, and Black Anthology, Blunt Space Inc., and When the River Speaks magazine.