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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| In Medias Res - NPS Finals 2005 | |
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| We Teach | |
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| Two Minutes | |
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| In Our Heaven | |
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| The Spark | |
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| Making a Scene, 1990-1994 | |
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| Albuquerque Poetry Scene, 1990-1994 | |
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| Coyote | |
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| The Wind | |
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| Albuquerque | |
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| Slam Poetry Demystified | |
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| First Slam at Jack's Lounge | |
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| Drought | |
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| Blue Plate Special | |
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| Chinco de Mayo | |
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| Be my pearl jam | |
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| Venues - Best Price Books and Coffee | |
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| The Anatomy of a History Lesson | |
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| Taos Poetry Circus | |
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| One-match Fire | |
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| Venues - Gold Coast Coffeehouse | |
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| Barrio Madonna | |
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| Venues-Fabulous Dingo Bar | |
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| Women Are Like Trees | |
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| ABQ Poetry Slam Hits the Road, 1995-2005 | |
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| The First Nationals Team from Albuquerque | |
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| I Am | |
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| 1995-2000 | |
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| No Part (a.k.a. Chicano Poem) | |
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| In Our 70s | |
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| Satellite Man | |
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| December 1982 | |
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| Ash | |
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| Slamming in the Early Years | |
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| Remembrance of Trinidad Sanchez Jr. (1943-2006) | |
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| Let Us Stop This Madness | |
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| Remembrance of Ken Hunt (1970-2005) | |
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| Savanna | |
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| Por que Lorca ha muerto? | |
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| The Object | |
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| Albuquerque Poetry Festival | |
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| The G-ification ofYour Life | |
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| Forgetting to Live | |
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| 2000-2005 | |
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| Mo Ainm | |
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| Jesus Was a Mutt | |
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| Zarathustra | |
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| Quincy | |
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| Alburquerque | |
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| Venues - Winning Coffee Co | |
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| Road Trip | |
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| The Hour of the Angelus | |
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| Central Avenue | |
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| Manzano Sunflowers | |
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| Truelove | |
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| the rag | |
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| After the Ultrasound, Week 12 | |
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| Venues - Club Rhythm & Blues | |
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| A Vato Needs All the Help He Can Get | |
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| Venues - Insomnia | |
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| Ode to Johnny Cash | |
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| Committing Poetry in Times of War | |
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| Venues - Blue Dragon | |
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| City Champions and Slam Teams 1995-2005 | |
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| ABQ Poetry Brings NPS Home - the Organizers' Story | |
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| The Bid | |
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| Front Porch | |
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| The Vision - a Bigger Boat | |
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| Fat Man | |
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| Behind the Curtain | |
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| Misfits | |
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| The Media - Getting Albuquerque Excited | |
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| The Magic of Performing in New Mexico | |
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| Waiting for a Title in German | |
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| Venues - Puccini's Golden West | |
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| Organizing NPS 2005 | |
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| Renaissance Women | |
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| NPS Experience | |
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| Courting the Spark | |
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| The Volunteers | |
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| Holy Water | |
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| Making the Event Happen | |
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| You Are the Snow | |
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| NPS 2005 and the ABQ Slam Team Champions' Story | |
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| Letter from the Chair of NPS 2005 (from the Event Program) | |
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| NPS 2005 Schedule of Events | |
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| The National Poetry Slam 2005 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center | |
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| Nerd Slam under the Cottonwoods | |
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| George Bush | |
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| Albuquerque Nationals | |
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| Panning for Teeth | |
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| Head-to-Head Haiku | |
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| Haiku | |
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| Forty-Eight-Hour Poetry Jook Joint... Out ch'Yonda | |
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| Albuquerque Slam | |
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| A Poetic Audience Perspective | |
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| Tournament Bouts | |
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| Soweto-Aubervilliers | |
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| Your Best Behavior | |
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| For Bashir | |
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| Individual Championship - 2005 | |
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| Visiting and Competing in NPS 2005 | |
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| Headstone | |
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| Being the National Poetry Individual Champion | |
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| for those who can still ride an airplane for the first time | |
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| Finals Night - Five Needles (Part I) | |
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| "Q" | |
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| Hosting the Event | |
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| Home | |
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| Pink and Brown | |
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| Rebel Music | |
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| They Love You Not | |
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| Mirror, Mirror | |
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| Dance | |
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| Finals Night - Five Needles (Part II) | |
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| Finals Controversy | |
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| The Event and the Controversy | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Best-Run National Poetry Slam | |
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| What Teachers Make | |
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| The Team | |
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| Winning It All - Team ABQ 2005 | |
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| A m�i ng | |
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| Night of the Chihuahua | |
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| Common Ground | |
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| Wednesdays in Philly | |
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| Albuquerque and NPS2005 | |
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| Some Recollections of the National Poetry Slam, Albuquerque, 2005 | |
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| Thank You Acknowledgments | |
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| ABQ Aftermath | |
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| Aftermath: The Arts Community | |
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| Artists and NPS | |
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| Aftermath: The Poetry Community | |
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| 2006 Bravos Award in Theatre Arts | |
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| Word-Sure Boy | |
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| Where Do We Go from Here-after the 2005 Championship | |
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| Rock 'n' Roll | |
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| Billie's Blues Are Mine | |
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| Polonius's Advice to His Son (the Remix) | |
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| UNM Spoken Word and College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) | |
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| Una Novena pa la Tierra | |
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| The UNM Spoken Word Initiative | |
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| New and Rejected Works | |
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| Dry Spell Dream | |
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| Women in Slam | |
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| I Dare You | |
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| Women and Poetry | |
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| Freshwater Fish | |
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| Poets and Writers Picnic | |
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| the rag and Herland | |
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| War | |
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| Aftermath: The Wider Community | |
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| Song for Solomon | |
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| Aftermath: Organizing Community | |
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| Monsoon Season | |
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| Pull the Next One Up | |
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| Afterword | |
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