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POETS
Iyeoka Okoawo is one of the top ten slammers in the country. Among her lists of credits is being asked to compose and perform a poem for a dinner event hosted for Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda, being commissioned by a top-twenty ad agency commission to write a piece for a diversity training tool, gracing the inaugural cover of the magazine Leverage, and receiving a New England Urban Music Award for the Best Female Spoken Word Poet of 2006.
She’s also the only member of the Boston Lizard Lounge Slam team to have earned her position six years in a row. Iyeoka will help you to remember that there is no such thing as “slam poetry”, only three minute time slots where a poet tries to inject their heart into yours. Let her. .
She’s also the only member of the Boston Lizard Lounge Slam team to have earned her position six years in a row. Iyeoka will help you to remember that there is no such thing as “slam poetry”, only three minute time slots where a poet tries to inject their heart into yours. Let her. .
Christopher Johnson
(Tranzit Thawt)
To Book This Artist:
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It has been said that Christopher Johnson's work accurately captures the heart
rending portrayal of urban life...in all of its ugly glory, with a sense of a
hope for a better future.
Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Chris' "spoken word" captures stories and experiences of an urban world where complex everyday lives, move to staccato rhythms of the city without loosing the human spirituality necessary for survival. Chris moved to Trenton where he was given the nick name Transit Thought, for the broad range of real issue works he performed on street corners, train stations, high schools and colleges.
Now residing in Providence RI, Chris gives Spoken word workshops for surrounding area High Schools and after school programs as well as book features for and host a verbal arts series at the Providence Black Repertory Theatre. He has opened for acclaimed artist Ursala Rucker, Jessica Care-Moore, John Legend, Bohamadia, and as the featured poet in Black Dove Neon Soul Collective, he opened for world renowned Tortured Soul.
More recently, he won Famecast's spoken word contest and received a $10,000 award over 211 poets from all over the country. He is also the current Lizard Lounge's "lizard king" poetry slam winner!
Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Chris' "spoken word" captures stories and experiences of an urban world where complex everyday lives, move to staccato rhythms of the city without loosing the human spirituality necessary for survival. Chris moved to Trenton where he was given the nick name Transit Thought, for the broad range of real issue works he performed on street corners, train stations, high schools and colleges.
Now residing in Providence RI, Chris gives Spoken word workshops for surrounding area High Schools and after school programs as well as book features for and host a verbal arts series at the Providence Black Repertory Theatre. He has opened for acclaimed artist Ursala Rucker, Jessica Care-Moore, John Legend, Bohamadia, and as the featured poet in Black Dove Neon Soul Collective, he opened for world renowned Tortured Soul.
More recently, he won Famecast's spoken word contest and received a $10,000 award over 211 poets from all over the country. He is also the current Lizard Lounge's "lizard king" poetry slam winner!
