photo by Ronna
Leon
Arts
Habitat Presents Spoken Word Artist
Garland
Thompson Jr. in
Slam Poetry
Event
Arts Habitat will
present poet Garland Thompson, Jr. on Thursday,
July 16, in an interactive poetry presentation
entitled, "Are You Ready to Slam? A Brief Look at
the Poetry Slam", as part of their event series
Arts in Progress: Third Thursdays with Arts
Habitat. The events take place every third
Thursday of the month at the Monterey YMCA, 600
Camino El Estero, at Webster Street, from 7:00 to
9:00 pm. Refreshments are served and the events
are free and open to the
public.
Garland Thompson Jr. is a
poet, an actor, playwright and producer whose
career spans the left and right coasts, and more
than 20 years. As a poet and spoken word artist
Garland has toured the U.S and Europe. Locally,
Garland has performed at First Night Monterey, the
Carmel Performing Arts Festival, and he recently
appeared in Pacific Repertory Theater's production
of Man of La Mancha. He has been featured at,
hosted and produced poetry readings and slams
across the nation, and locally is known as the
creator and producer of the "West Coast
Championship Poetry Slam", an annual event that
was held in Big Sur, CA, at the Henry Miller
Memorial Library from 1998 through
2007.
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