Fridays 8:00-11:00 p.m @ Tango Tea Room
505 S. Water St., Corpus Christi, TX 78401, (361) 883-9123
(http://ballabajoomba.tripod.com)
Fridays 8:00-11:00 p.m @ Tango Tea Room
505 S. Water St., Corpus Christi, TX 78401, (361) 883-9123
(http://ballabajoomba.tripod.com)
Suggested donation $3 will help to pay
our winners and featured poets and will help the
Ballabajoomba Slam Team to travel to national and state
events.
1) Sign-up at 8:00 p.m. followed
up with an open mic, feature, and a slam. The list is
closed when 12 poets sign up.
2) Poets perform poems of their own construction, any
style or subject, 100% free speech. No props,
costumes, musical accompaniment, or animal acts are
allowed. 3'10" time limit.
3) A group of five judges selected from the
audience scores each poem on a scale of 0.0 - 10.0,
considering both content and performance. Poets, this is
it, our audience is our master!! High and low
scores are dropped, middle three are added together, the
perfect score is 30.0.
4) High scores advance to the 2nd and 3rd rounds.
5) A winner gets $10, a free dinner from the
Tango Tea Room, and two cups of coffee.
Above all else, "The Point is NOT the Points, the Point is Poetry" (Allan Wolf ).
