1-2-3 Slam at the 2025 Poetry Festival

Name: 1-2-3 Slam at the 2025 Poetry Festival
Start: 2025-04-12T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-12T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Visual Arts Center of Richmond

Schedule

Sat Apr 12 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Visual Arts Center of Richmond | Richmond, VA

The first 1-2-3 poetry slam in RVA! Three rounds of intense spoken-word competition and $600 in cash prizes! This event is in partnership with VisArts for The Richmond Poetry Festival happening April 9th to the 12th.
First round is the1 minute round.
Poems must be 1 minute or less
Second round is a the 2 minute round
Poems must be 2 minutes or less
Third round is the 3 minute round.
Poems must be 3 minutes or less
1st place wins $300
2nd place wins $200
3rd place wins $100
$20 registration to compete
Free and open to the public
1812 W Main St, Richmond, VA 23220
https://www.visarts.org for info
Hosted by Roscoe Burnems
Rules #InTheDen
- There are 3 elimination rounds. All registered poets will compete in the first round, the top scores will move forward in the competion that night. We start with a maximum of 12 poets. 6 move on to the second round. 3 move on to the last round
-Each round is clean slate. We do not add the scores together from previous rounds
-Poems must be your original work
-poems are scored by 5 judges on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0. the highest and lowest scores are dropped. The three remaining score are totaled giving a poet their score for that round. the highest score a poem can receive is a 30.
-The order of performances is determined during the slam via a random draw. The host will pull names out of a hat each round
-poets get the maximum amount of time for the round and a 10 second grace to perform. anything second over that results in a 0 for that round. The time starts once the poet engages the audience either by addressing the crowd verbally or doing a purposeful movement that infers the performance has started.
-no props are allowed onstage. you may read from a page or device but do not make reference to the page or device because it will be considered a prop at that point. violation of the prop rule will result in disqualification
contact @RoscoeBurnems or @thewritersdenrva to register.