Up From The Roots win national poetry slam tournament at the 2019 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word On behalf of the Spoken Word Canada (now speakNORTH) Board of Directors, as well as the Canadian Festival of Spoken… instagram.com/p/B3-cFJGnpVS/…

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Good morning everyone, The @SpokenWordCan AGM is being held at 10C this morning I’m Guelph. There will also be an unofficial lunch held afterward to discuss poetry from #cfsw2019 semifinals that were harmful to members of the community. All are welcome to attend.

Finals will be LIVE STREAMED TONIGHT @ 7pm #cfsw2019 @upfromtheroots @BIP_Collective @guelphpoetry @LDNPoetrySlam @GuelphBugle @BLewisPublicity @riverruncentre @spokenwordfest #guelphontario @guelpharts @PrideGuelph

Results are in for semi finals bout 2! Teams with stars ** are moving on to finals: 4th place: 107.2 @SlamPTBO 3rd place: 110.9 Emotional Baggage **2nd place: 114.5 @LDNPoetrySlam **1st place: 116.5 @upfromtheroots #cfsw2019

Emotional Baggage does a 4 person team piece! (Did you know this team was only formed on Sunday??) “scatter a future of chances to hold” 9.0 9.0 9.6 9.5 9.8 #cfsw2019

“Sometimes I’m just the rest of the world. Sometimes it’s just disaster.” “How does one say goodbye to a wave if they never leave the shore?” @upfromtheroots sends up Shelly and Desiree for a team piece! 9.5, 9.5, 9.2, 9.9, 10! #cfsw2019

Kristal Jones from @SlamPTBO “we say no nudity, as though I can’t have on all of these clothes, say these lines, and still be totally, completely bare naked” 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.1 9.1 #cfsw2019

Queen of Harpies from Emotional Baggage “paradise is a pile of napkins, everything is better messy, except this” 9.3 9.0 9.6 9.0 8.4 but a time penalty of 3:29 #cfsw2019

Ray from @SlamPTBO “when I see the same thing again and again it loses meaning” 9.5 8.8 8.2 8.7 8.9 #cfsw2019 (I was so distracted by the poetry I forgot to take a photo...)

Emotional Baggage sends up Sulva “a room full of smoke is still full of something” 8.9 8.8 9.8 9.8 9.9 #cfsw2019

Annika of @LDNPoetrySlam “I never thought that a language class would be where language would desert me” 9.6 9.1 9.0 9.5 9.6 #cfsw2019

Jon Hedderwick from @SlamPTBO “I imagine this is the desired effect” 8.9 9.1 9.5 9.5 9.1 #cfsw2019

Official competition starts with a TEAM PIECE from wild card team Emotional Baggage!! Sulva and Q “Sometimes I’m a casualty of my intersections” 8.8 9.2 9.3 9.7 9.5 #cfsw2019