Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge: 2007 Team Bios

The 2007 team was selected over a two-night, six-round slam of the top sixteen slammers in the Cantab Lounge. All five of our team members have National Poetry Slam experience, with three of them being returning members from the 2006 team. This August, they will travel to Austin, Texas, for the 2007 National Poetry Slam.

Presenting the 2007 Boston-Cantab Slam Team:

Simone Beaubien is an eight-year veteran of the New England poetry scene and host of the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge. She has competed at four National Poetry Slams (representing the Cantab every time) and has read her work in colleges, bookstores, theaters, and bars from Portland, Maine, to Vancouver, British Columbia, to Del Ray Beach, Florida.

Only some of what you hear about Shira Erlichman is true. Resume: 1983 Professional Kitten Wrestler, 2004 Worcester Youth Grand Slam Champ, 1973 Underwater Chess Champ, 2005 Worcester Grand Slam Champ, 1948 StrongWoman "Small But Mighty" Competition Champion, 2005 Worcester Adult Nationals Team, 1908 Grandma-Breakdancers Referee, one of four 2005 College Nationals "Best of the Rest" poets to showcase at finals at College Nats. Poet, folk musician, Cantab team first-timer.

Brian S. Ellis was a member of the Cantab 2006 NPS Team, and the Cantab 2007 IWPS representative. He is also a founding member of the Whitehaus Family Arkestra. He currently resides in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Jme (J*me, James Caroline) was voted Best Local Author in the 2006 Boston Phoenix poll. He is a multiple Cambridge Poetry Award winner in the categories Best Erotic Male Performance Poet and Best Slam Poet--Male. He has guest-lectured and performed at venues internationally and this is his third national slam team. In May of 2007, he will perform and teach at The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans and is currently an instructor at The Online School of Poetry. In 1997 he was commissioned to write the vocal text of a play about eating disorders and women, which made its debut at HERE multimedia center in Manhattan. He has been published in Quarry, Subliminal, Pinned Down by Pronouns, The Shadow Sacrament, The Cascadia Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly.

You can see the team onstage every Wednesday at the Cantab Lounge, or check their schedule of appearances. To book the team to perform at your venue or event, email cantab@slamnews.com.

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