Guest Contributor
Itall starts with a mission: Poets in their local poetry scene compete for a chance to make a team and represent it in the country’s biggest regional poetry slam in the country: The Southern Fried Poetry Festival. While it has always changed locations within the 23 years of its existence, there is one thing that you can count on: this is not just a poetry competition, it’s a family reunion.
I was lucky enough to attend the slam this year for the sixth time and this was my second year competing on the Bull City Slam Team out of Durham, NC. As the returning champions, we knew that this would be a
