And the 2025 Competitors Are:
A Veritable Who's Who of Slam Poets & Spoken Word Artists!
Registered Teams 2025
- Voices of the Barrio - Albuquerque, NM
- Route 666 – Flagstaff, AZ
- Ghost Poetry – Phoenix, AZ
- OC Poetry – Orange County, CA
- Fountain City Poets - Kansas City
- BC Pick Up Team –
- Bull City Slam – Durham, NC
- Suicide Squad Slam Team
- Mercury Slam – Denver, CO
- Spotlight Poetry – Las Vegas, NV
- 509 – Albuquerque, NM
- Can’t Believe It’s Not Berkeley! – Berkeley, CA
Registered Indies 2025
- Billy Tuggle – Chicago, IL
- Demetri Manabat – Las Vegas, NV
- Sammi Walker – Las Vegas, NV
- Penehuro Williams – Las Vegas, NV
- JoeMac – San Diego, CA
- LadyK – Fresno, CA
- Johnny Osi – Denver, CO
- Vanessa Verse – Seattle, WA
- Symbolik Knight – Brooklyn, NY
- Joshua Wiss – Flagstaff, AZ
- Zac Frater – Las Vegas, NM
- THEEQueenShaa – Brooklyn, NY
- Antoinette Martine Torres – Killeen, TX
- Evris Oake – Wichita, KS
- Emily Tucker – Albuquerque, NM
- Black Chakra – Baltimore, MD
- Mister Aubs – Rock Island, IL
- Khalil Houston – Richmond, VA
- Sacred Fantasy - San Antonio, TX
- Alex Schotten – Tucson, AZ
- Brennan DeFrisco – Oakland, CA
- Jessica Parascandola – Albuquerque, NM
- Miss Zany
- Breeze the Poet
- Noir Jente
2025 Bout Draw
Who, When & Where - You Already Know Why
We will have a total of 12 preliminary bouts divided evenly between indies and teams, with 3 bouts at 6 pm and 3 bouts at 8 pm each night on March 20th and 21st to determine who goes on to our Champions Stage!
Past Competitors
Our Family Photo Album
2024 Competitors
Congratulations to our inaugural regional champions!
Individual Champion - Black Chakra!
Team Champions - Ghost Phantom (Phoenix, Arizona)
But listen y'all, everyone brought fire in 2024, so we are gonna archive a list of all competitors right here for posterity! Think of it as our family album :)
Competing Teams 2024
1) The Reigning Monarchs
2) Voices of the Village
3) League of Legends
4) Palabra
5) Route 666
6) Ghost Spectre
7) Ghost Phantom
8) Goosebumps Slam
9) Mercury Cafe Poetry Slam
10) Under His Construction
Competing Indies 2024
- Jose Jimenez (Visalia, CA)
- Artist JoeMac (San Diego, California)
- Brennan DeFrisco (Oakland, CA)
- Tempest Back (Flagstaff, AZ)
- Lydia Gates (Flagstaff, AZ)
- Vanessa Verse (Seattle, WA)
- Symbolik Knight (Brooklyn, NY)
- Stacy Renee Eden (Phoenix, AZ)
- Marcial Delgado (Albuquerque, NM)
- Black Chakra (Baltimore, MD)
- PropagandaPoet (San Diego, CA)
- Aubs (Rock Island, IL)
- Jessica Parascandola (Albuquerque,NM)
- TheeQueenShaa (Brooklyn, NY)
- Aaron (Washington, DC)
- Sewer Puss (Phoenix, AZ)
- Kuveni Scanlan (Albuquerque, NM)
- Penehuro (Las Vegas, NV)
- Cathy Cook (Albuquerque, NM)
- Keith Allen (Albuquerque, NM)
- Whois Ardimus (St. Louis, MI)
- Wynter Storm (Salt Lake City, UT)
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