Author Archives: Antonia

Robin Bobo is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, October 27th! Monday’s Theme: SELF-LOVE

Robin Bobo is a Chicago based spoken word artist, poet, and author whose voice has been featured on stages across the world. A multiNational Spoken Word Award winner and member of The Collective slam team, Robin is known for her … Continue reading

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William Strangmeyer is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, October 20th! Monday’s Theme: SEARCH

William Walrond Strangmeyer was born in Roanoke, Virginia, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and Brofus, New Jersey, where he went to Rugrats University, starting out as a classics major, changing to musicology and finishing with an abnormal psychology, … Continue reading

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Kim B. Miller is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, October 6th! Monday’s Theme: LABELS

Kim B Miller is a multi-disciplinary performing artist. She is Prince William County, Manassas & Manassas Park, Virginia US Poet Laureate Emerita and the (first and only) Black Poet Laureate for that region. Her poems have been published in an … Continue reading

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Floyd Humphrey is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, September 22nd! Monday’s Theme: OBSESSION

Floyd Humphrey–“I started writing poems in school while I was studyig English litterature and I copied they style of Keats, Byron and Yeats. Many years later I was advised by the Liverpool poet Brian Patten to find my own voice … Continue reading

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Judymay Murphy is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, September 15th! Monday’s Theme: ROADS

Irish poet Judymay Murphy lives in London and performs her poetry on stages all around the world including at the annual UNICEF Galas in London and Vienna. She’s a double graduate of Trinity College Dublin’s Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama … Continue reading

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Alice Gretton is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, September 8th! Monday’s Theme: SPACE

Alice Gretton is an award winning spoken word artist, painting tapestries with words and performance. Kent’s poet for National Poetry Day 2019. Alice has won the United Kingdom Young Artist award, received mentoring from Canterbury’s Poet Laureate Lemn Sissay, and … Continue reading

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Emmet O’Brien is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, July 21st! Monday’s Theme: MELTDOWN

Emmet O’Brien burst into the scene in March 2017, and has done more than your average 25 year old. Within the first 3 years alone he released a book, entitled “A Perspective From The Corrupt Mind Of The Youth” aswell … Continue reading

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Heidi Seaborn and Cynthia Good are Our Special Guests at SpokenWord Paris, July 14th! Monday’s Theme: SURVIVAL

Heidi Seaborn is the author of three books of poetry, tic tic tic, (September 2025), An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, Give a Girl Chaos, and three chapbooks, Bite Marks, Once a Diva and Finding My Way Home. She’s won or been shortlisted for over sixty prizes, including … Continue reading

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Skye Jackson is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, July 7th! Monday’s Theme: FREE

Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has appeared in RHINO, The Southern Review, Palette Poetry, RATTLE and elsewhere. Her poetry has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Award, the RATTLE Poetry Prize, the RHINO Founders’ Prize, and in 2021 she received the AWP Intro Journals Award. … Continue reading

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Alex Vellis is Our Special Guest at SpokenWord Paris, June 23rd! Monday’s Theme: NOSTALGIA

Alex Vellis (they/them) is a Greek-British artist specialising in poetry and installation. They hold an MA in Creative Writing and are Open School East alum. Vellis’ work questions liminality, ergodic literature, the benthic, identity, place, and presentation. Their practice focuses on … Continue reading

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