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Report by Alberto. Pictures by Stephanie Hoffman (Whole album here). Flashback to 2012! For the Last Spoken Word Rumble of The Year, featuring Rachel Rose Reid winner of the UK Young Storyteller of The Year! I remember 2012, we were … Continue reading →

A request – because, as people have said, it is distracting from the poetry to have a lot of camera clicking going on, I am asking you not to use professional style cameras. Steph takes pictures and is very discrete … Continue reading →

Report by Alberto. Pictures by Stephanie Hoffmann (Check out the Whole Album)FEATURED POET and Writer, Rapper, Lecturer, Boxing Champion of Writers get Violent, Founder Of The Series Unstrung Letters, Midnight Storyteller: Georgina Emerson. Tom scares the audience: I’m a gargoyle from … Continue reading →

The Bastille was stormed last night in chaotic and bloody scenes, the King and Queen executed using a cheese grater. Even Alberto, who orchestrated turning hundred-strong Chat Noir crowd into a rabble, did not escape. Copies of The Bastille are … Continue reading →

Report By Alberto 3 Rounds, 3 Hours, 28 Performers, 2 Birthdays, 10 (surely more) different countries,1 leotard, 1 black eye: It’s Spoken Word Paris on November 19, usual Monday down in The Chat Noir’s Basement. Opening with Kate Noakes, then … Continue reading →

Report By Alberto / Pictures by Stephanie Hoffmann Christelle sharing Seamus Heaney and Arthur Rimbaud. David’s “Pity le Pauvre Parisien”. “And pity le pauvre audience for listening it again, but I like to read it.” Kate Noakes: “The dictator’s eyes.” … Continue reading →

Report by Amel. Photos by Hal Bergman http://www.halbergman.com/ INTRODUCTION A mysterious fellow wearing a scary mask introduces us to this special edition of Spoken Word, filling the air with flames, declaiming: “Fellow Catholics!! In this year of our Lord 1605, we … Continue reading →

Report by David. Various videos of witches and others will appear on the facebook page over the next 24 hours, thanks to Valeryia and Amel. Photos by Valeryia. ‘Lucky’ Lucy Hopkins sang Tom Lehrer’s Irish Ballad About a maid I’ll sing … Continue reading →