Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, NPR’s Snap Judgement & MTV’s Free Your Mind. The Kenyon Review named Regie Cabico the “Lady Gaga of Poetry” and he has been listed in BUST magazine’s 100 Men We Love. Cabico is the recipient of a 2006 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award for his work teaching poetry at Bellevue Hospital for young adults. He most recently edited Super Stoked: An Anthology of Trans and Queer Poetry (Capturing Fire Press, 2018) .