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Touring poets, $100 in cash prizes, and lyrical mayhem EVERY WEDNESDAY! BEST OF THE BAY! We're everywhere!

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10/25/2026

Spooky Slam is this Wednesday! Which means it’s time to throw on your best costume for the costume contest! Are you ready to do the monster mash?

Poets, as a time honored tradition, we are throwing out the no costume rule!

And don’t forget to join us for the workshop before the show!

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10/21/2026

This is for the new ones! The new work! The new poets! Slide thru for all NEW S**T!

Poets sign up for the show at the door! List closes at 8pm or when we get 20 sign ups. So get there when the list opens at 7:15!

Don’t have a new poem? Join us for the writing workshop before the show!

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10/12/2026

The 2026-2027 team has been working hard all summer getting our poems together for next years Slam Tournaments. Slide through to this years LitCrawl, we’ll be at The Sycamore

This is going to be Spoken Word Poetry at it’s finest! Curated by this years Coach, Tino V.H. Jr.!

10/09/2026

Kevin Madrigal Galindo serve food justice to our communities, they are a stellar poet! Come thru next Wednesday as the grace the Berkeley Slam stage with their poems! They will be closing out our Latine Heritage Month.

Sign up for the show before at the door! The list closes at 8pm or when we hit 20 sign ups!

And don’t forget to join us for the writing workshop before the show! Coach Tino V.H. Jr. will be hosting next week!

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10/03/2026

Leticia Hernández-Linares is gracing the Berkeley Slam rage this week, as we continue Latine History Month!

Sign up for our weekly slam at the door when the list goes out at 7:15pm! The list closes when we hit 20 sign ups! And only 14 poets touch the stage.

And don’t forget to join us for the writing workshop before the show! We got you covered with the writing prompts and a space to generate new work!

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10/01/2026

As the season continues, our leaderboards grows, poet’s ascend. Others bide their time to refine their poems. It’s all the same.
But with 11 months to the season, whoever is at the top at the leaderboard is anyone’s guess.
And it looks like our poets will have more to look forward to in the future as well.

09/28/2026

Latine Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the voices and contributions of the Latine writers in our community, and few have done as much good work for those voices than Elizabeth Jimenez Montelongo. The Founder of LaRaiz LaRaiz is here to share some poems with y’all and you don’t wanna miss these!

Sign up for the show at the door. Or come to writing workshop before the show and write some poems with us.

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And don’t forget to check up the rest of our amazing line up for the rest of the month.

09/17/2026

The one and only CordonConcepts 🇬🇹🇸🇻, the poet laureate of Antioch, is blessing rhe Berkeley Alam stage, and you don’t wanna wanna miss it!

Come through next week as we continue Latine Herritags Month.

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POETS: sign up for the show at the door. And catch us for the writing workshop before the show!

09/12/2026

Latine Heritage month IS HERE! And we have some very special poets lineup and ready to spit some dope ass poems, songs, and their art!

Slide through for the next few weeks at Berkeley Slam! This week we have immensely talanted Evelyn Donají rocking the Berkeley Slam Stage!

09/06/2026

THE MYTH!!!! THE LEGEND!!!!!

THEEEE ASIA BRYANT-WILKERSON is gracing our stage THIS Wednesday.

Slide through for our FREE writing workshop at 7:15

Sign ups for the slam goes out at 7:15 as well. The list fill up quick so get here EARLY

Doors open 7pm

Show starts at 8

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Berkeley, CA
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8pm - 11pm

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