Beau Sia
Poet
Beau SiaHe is of Chinese Filipino descent. Raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sia discovered spoken word poetry on MTV as a teenager. When not participating in his high school's swim team, he spent time at Oklahoma City's only open mike night. In... In this article: SlamNation, Jewel, New York City, Def Poetry, Beau Sia, Oklahoma City, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, and Tisch School of the Arts |
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Def Poetry
...the poetry slam movement, and utilizes many of poetry slam's best known poets, including National Poetry Slam champions such as Beau Sia, Taylor Mali, Big Poppa E, Mayda del Valle, Mike Mcgee , Alix Olson and Rives , among others. Even poets...
In this article: Def Poetry, HBO, John S. Hall, Russell Simmons, Rives, Taylor Mali, Bob Holman, and Black Ice
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Saul Williams
...Slam Champion . The documentary film SlamNation follows Williams and the other members of the 1996 Nuyorican Poets Slam team (Beau Sia, Mums da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they compete in the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in...
In this article: Persia White, Trent Reznor, Year Zero, Nine Inch Nails, Amethyst Rock Star, and Golden Camera
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Wolf Like Me
...it peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2006. The music video for "Wolf Like Me" starring spoken word poet Beau Sia was directed by Jon Watts and mixes two cinematic styles: black-and-white silent film and 1980s...
In this article: Wolf Like Me, Never Back Down, TV On The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain, B-movie, Guitar Hero 5, Project Gotham Racing 4, Rock Band series, and Matchstick Productions
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Bowery Poetry Club
...conversation and some of the last edginess on the Bowery not yet channeled into hotels." - Bowery Poets: Bob Holman, Moonshine, Shappy, Beau Sia and Gary Glazner performed in March of 2008, at Time Out New York says, "The name of this colorful...
In this article: Bob Holman, Bowery, Gregory Corso, Ted Joans, East Village, Gary Glazner, and Michael McClure
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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
...of Physics at West Chester University. Aptowicz was introduced to the New York City Poetry Slam community by NYU classmate, Beau Sia. In November 1998, at age 19, she founded the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam series. NYC-Urbana was the formal...
In this article: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Taylor Mali, Bob Holman, Philadelphia Film Festival, New York University, Anis Mojgani, and Soft Skull Press
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
...death a few years previously. He has also studied poetry with Kimiko Hahn, Richard Tayson and Li-Young Lee; performance with Beau Sia and the Asian American troupe Peeling; playwriting with Julia Cho and David Henry Hwang; photography...
In this article: New York City, Brentwood High School, Thomson Gale, Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo, Calvary Baptist Church, Baptist, and God
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Yellow Rage
...Ladyfest in March 2003. They have performed alongside many other artists including Ursula Rucker, Pharoah Monche, Native Guns, The Pacifics, Chops, Dave Chappelle, Beau Sia, Bao Phi, I Was Born With Two Tongues, Danny Hoch, and Black Ice.
In this article: Taylor Mali, Black Ice, Temple University, Philadelphia, Jessica Care Moore, Ursula Rucker, and Russell Simmons
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MuMs da Schemer
...featured in the documentary SlamNation, which followed him and the other poets of 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia and Jessica Care Moore) as the competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam. In the book Words In Your...
In this article: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, SlamNation, Jessica Care Moore, Saul Williams, MuMs Da Schemer, HBO, Chappelle's Show, Boston Legal, and Def Poetry
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Nuyorican Poets Cafe
...battle program Braggin' Rites, Nuyorican Poets Cafe counts poetry activists such as Bob Holman, Saul Williams, Sarah Jones , and Beau Sia as former slammasters. In 1996, poetess, actress and activist Caridad de la Luz made her debut as...
In this article: Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman, Rutgers University, Edwin Torres, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Pinero, and Saul Williams
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SlamNation
...film follows the National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon. SlamNation follows the 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia, muMs da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in...
In this article: SlamNation, Portland, Oregon, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Taylor Mali, Bob Holman, Marc Smith, William Shakespeare, and Jessica Care Moore
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Beau Sia (traditional: 謝福源; simplified: 谢福源; pinyin: Xiè Fúyuán, Born 1976, Philippines) is a Chinese Filipino-American slam poet. Raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sia discovered spoken word poetry on MTV as a teenager. When not participating in his high school's swim team, he spent time at Oklahoma City's only open mike night.
In 1995, Sia moved to New York City, where he attended the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts dramatic writing program. He has said that moving to New York made him conscious of his identity as an Asian American, something that he denied often in Oklahoma City. His cultural identity became a common theme in his poems.
Sia began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, eventually earning himself a place on the 1996 Nuyorican National Poetry Slam team. That same year, he would be filmed for the documentary SlamNation. The film followed Sia and his Nuyorican teammates (Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore and Mums da Schemer) as the competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam. The team would go on to place third in the nation, and have a lasting impact on how people would view slam poetry. In the book Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz wrote of Sia's impact, noting
Sia's relationship with the Poetry Slam community continued. He eventually earned two National Poetry Slam Championships in 1997 and 2000 while competing on the NYC-Urbana national poetry slam team. He would also reach second place in the Individual Poetry Slam competition in 2001.
Sia then began touring around Europe and the United States. He also appeared in films and published a wide range of his works in book and compact disc form.
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