The Boston Poetry Slam was a part of Boston’s city-wide First Night celebration every New Year’s Eve from 1995 to 2014. The four-poet demonstration slams were notoriously packed wall-to-wall with audience and poem-to-poem with all-star slammers! Unfortunately, transitions at First Night have left the show without poetry since the December 31, 2015 event.
Past all-star line-ups have included:
- Sophia Holtz
- Zeke Russell
- Nora Meiners
- Sean Patrick Mulroy
- Janae Johnson
- Meaghan Ford
- Marshall Gillson
- Melissa Lozada-Oliva
- Jha D.
- Rudy Rudacious
- Cole Rodriguez
- Febo
- Tru Kwene
- D. Ruff
- Erin Jackson
- Ed Wilkinson
- Michael Monroe
- Trevor Liam Byrne-Smith
- Marlon Carey
- Adam Stone
- Jamei Bauer
- Yunus Quddus
- Nathan Comstock
- Cassandra de Alba
- Melissa Newman-Evans
- Jade Sylvan
- Simone Beaubien
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