{"id":5261,"date":"2023-05-04T03:31:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-the-words\/?page_id=5261"},"modified":"2024-08-08T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:59:10","slug":"midwest-poetry-mashup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/home-2\/the-words-may-2023\/midwest-poetry-mashup\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Poetry Mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Anna \u0160verclov\u00e1 \u201923<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/05\/Square_MPM_Promo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Midwest Poetry Mash-Up\" class=\"wp-image-5267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/05\/Square_MPM_Promo-300x300.jpg 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/05\/Square_MPM_Promo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/05\/Square_MPM_Promo-150x150.jpg 150w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/05\/Square_MPM_Promo-768x768.jpg 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/05\/Square_MPM_Promo-1536x1536.jpg 1536w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2023\/05\/Square_MPM_Promo-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Macalester\u2019s traveling slam poetry team (formerly known as the CUPSI team) is heading off to the Midwest Poetry Mashup on Friday and Saturday, April 28th and 29th. During this competition, the team will compete against four other teams from around the Twin Cities, including some notable adult poets such as Zach Goldberg and Farah Habad. This year, Mac\u2019s team includes senior Anna \u0160verclov\u00e1, junior Kendall Kieras, and sophomores Adrien Wright and Veronica Kruschel. The competition was organized by Macalester alum, Oliver Schminkey, in the wake of CUPSI\u2019s cancellation. Earlier this year, CUPSI issued the cancellation of the annual poetry slam competition for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. According to ACUI\u2019s official website, \u201cWe are saddened that we will not be gathering together this year. ACUI will be taking strategic steps to assess this program and work with the community to determine its future.\u201d We don\u2019t know the future of CUPSI, but we do know that the energy for poetry slam is still here in the Twin Cities, and we\u2019re doing our best not to let it die. Join us on Friday and Saturday for hours of gut-wrenching poetry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, be sure to check out BuckSlam, a new monthly poetry slam organized by Twin Cities Poet, Zach Goldberg. The first slam will be on May 10th at 7pm at Boneshaker books!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna \u0160verclov\u00e1 \u201923 Macalester\u2019s traveling slam poetry team (formerly known as the CUPSI team) is heading off to the Midwest Poetry Mashup on Friday and Saturday, April 28th and 29th. During this competition, the team will compete against four other teams from around the Twin Cities, including some notable adult poets such as Zach [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":5203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5261\/revisions\/7883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}