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Denice Frohman on Finals Stage at the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Minneapolis. Photo Credit: B Fresh Photography and Media

Congratulations to the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, Denice Frohman!

After three rounds of intense and amazing poetry from the 12 finalists, Denice Frohman won the final round by .1 over last year’s champion, Dominique Ashaheed and won the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam!

Congratulations to Denice and all the poets that represented the tournament on finals stage:

Competitors:
Denice Frohman, Theresa Davis, Porsha, Dominique Ashaheed, Meg Waldron, Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie, Falu, T. Miller, Denise Jolly, Sierra DeMulder, Suzi Q. Smith, and Eris Zion Venia.

Calibration and Sorbet Poets:
Cheryl Maddalena, Katie Wirsing and Witness

Youth Poet:
Ellyn Touchette

You can check out all of the scores on the PSi scoring site.

Several news outlets have posted recaps and photos from finals.  Check them out here:

City Pages – interviews from the Green Room during Finals

VitaMN:  War of the Words: Women of the World Poetry Slam Crowns Champion

City Pages – Finals night slideshow

The host city would like to extend a HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers, all of the poets that came to perform, teach workshops and host side events, all of the judges (without you, there would be no slam), the audience and our sponsors.

The host city crew would like to thank ALLISON BROEREN for all of the countless hours she put into organizing this event as the Host City Coordinator.

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Amy Everhart gets wrapped up while performing a poem at the Decathalon Slam at the 2012 Women of the World Slam in Denver. Photo by LZ Photography

The schedule of workshops and side events are now available on the website.

From early morning writing boot camp to a Sassy Fat Girls showcase to the Queer Open Mic to the Youth Slam, this year’s festival has a little bit of something for everyone.

Start planning your week, and purchase your festival pass to get the most out of your Women of the World experience!

If you are interested in catching a past Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, tonight is your night!

Andrea Gibson, the 2008 (or first) Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion is performing at Augsburg College.  Check out her poem video:

The nationally-renowned social justice poet and activist Andrea Gibson will be presenting works from her fifth full-length album, FLOWER BOY.
7:00pm, Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center

Poetry fans voted more than 4000 times in the video slam this year, and more than 1500 of those votes went to this year’s winner, Kali!

Kali is a teacher and spoken word poet. Over the past five years she has taught writing at Virginia Tech, University of Tampa, University of South Florida, and as far abroad as Darmstadt, Germany. After discovering spoken word in February of 2012, Kali also started working with youth poets through high school outreach programs. In addition to her passion for writing and speaking, she has an insatiable hankering for froyo. And has likely been to every self-serve frozen yogurt shop in a 30 mile radius of her home in St Pete.

Here is her winning poem:

We look forward to seeing Kali at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Minneapolis, March 6-9.