Berkeley Poetry Slam
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Touring poets, $200 in cash prizes, and lyrical mayhem EVERY WEDNESDAY! BEST OF THE BAY! We're everywhere!
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Next week is going to be a MOVIE. We have 2026 Berkeley Slam Team member Tomas Palpallatoc as pur feature poet!
Its gonna be another night of fire poetry and good vibez
Come on down for our FREE writing workshop at 7:15
See You There!!!!
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New Month, NEW SH*****T!!!
We want your FRESHEST poems
Come on down to our FREE writing workshop at 7:15 to get some new work of your own!!
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05/21/2026
STAND UP FOR YOUTH ARTS!!!!
This week we are partnering with to bring you th Youth Battle of the Bay.
We have amazing youth teams battling it out to see who is the Best in the Bay
NO OPEN SIGN UPS THIS WEEK
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REPOST:
Catch us this week, for another regularly scheduled Berkeley Slam!
We gotta a spectacular feature in And they got these fire ass poems for you!
Slide through and sign up at the door at 7:15pm! And join us on stage before the show for the writing workshop!
After a much needed break after our GRAND SLAM FINALS, We are BACK with more poetry and prizes.
We're kicking off AAPI Heritage month with 2024 and 2026 Berkeley Slam Team member MALLORY ASIS!!!!!
As always our sign up list goes up at 7:15 and first 12 poets to sign up get in for FREE
Our weekly writing workshop starts at 7:15 alo! Come create with us!
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05/03/2026
We’re taking it slow this week and throwing an open mic instead of a slam!
Slide through and sign up for the new s**t show! The list will be open for everyone to spot and share their work! Props and musical accompaniment is welcome!
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And don’t forget to join us for the workshop on stage before the show! We’ll have some notebooks and pens for you.
04/30/2026
Meet the 2026-2027 Berkeley Slam Team!
Thank you all so much for joining us through Finals Season! And for supporting all of our poets through this endeavors!
Shout out to all the poets who continue to make the Berkeley Slam the show what it is.
Left to Right
Gethsemane, Mallory, Tomas, Reggie, and PG.
Front center:
Tino (Coach)
04/29/2026
The top 5 poets of the Slam will form a year long cohort, carrying the legacy of Berkeley, pushing their pen and making their mark as poets in the Bay Area and afar. But they won’t be doing it all by themselves.
Meet our 2026-2027 Berkeley Slam Coach, !
“Tino V.H. Jr. .is a Mexican American Spoken Word poet, teaching artist and organizer from Oakland, CA.
He currently organizes with RichOak Events, the Beast Crawl Festival and curates the Poet’s Bookshelf, on Substack, and at Nomadic Bookshop as a monthly literary series.
“In his spare time he constantly updates his
‘Best Tacos in East Oakland’ list, plays too many video games, reads to feel alive and writes pre-colonial high fantasy.”
04/27/2026
Poets, I choose you!
We turned our Finalist into Pokédex Entries! If you had a Berkeley Slam Pokémon Team, who are you choosing
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3101 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA
94705
Opening Hours
| 8pm - 11pm |