Legendary Santa Cruz Poetry Slam Collective

You’ve got to hand it to them

the poets don’t take their craft lightly.
The indie slam had all of the poets in the first round throwing it down for their spot in the second. Possibly the best second round this slam has seen – John Staedler’s poem featured long sections of him… buzzing. Just buzzing. Tessa went off mic and into the audience to “read our bones.” Both Bekka and Lyrical I brought it raw and personal. New poet Drew gave a unique and confidant performance that landed him, along with John, Tessa and Lyrical in the fourth round. Head to head final round had both John and Tessa ripping their standards like a polaroid picture of an ex. In the end, Tessa took the crown with “Helen of Troy.”
We thought we were getting Kat Dietrech as our feature… but, it turned out to be an entire San Jose NPS team and their coach Jen Genius too!!! Kat and Chris’ daughter poem pulled on our heart strings, Jen and Dave’s enacted a cereal killer romance on stage, Kristina brought a dark love poem with metaphors between bruises and beauty marks.
Santa Cruz is heating up.