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Here’s Miles’ latest poem + video on YouTube. And it’s here on his Tumblr.

(You can find lots more on YouTube, too. All great… even “Ode to My Father.”)

This new one is part of his entry in a contest run by Write Bloody Publishing. I don’t know all the competition details, but he had to write a manuscript of around 350 poems during a 17-minute span of time during April… it was something like that, give or take. And “A Letter to My Vagina” made the jump to video for part of the contest. Winners will be selected from the twenty finalists to have their works published by Write Bloody. Cool! (See Megan Falley’s After the Witch Hunt for proof that it happens.)

If you have a YouTube or Google login, your “Like” on the YouTube page can help the cause!

mileswalser:

Hey again friends!
Write Bloody’s video contest is still running! Please, if you haven’t had a chance, go watch my video for my poem “A Letter to My Vagina” on YouTube.
And remember, what they are counting in the contest is the number of “Likes” on YouTube, so if you do like the video (and I hope you do!) please click Like on YouTube!

And thank you thank you to everyone who has reblogged this so far. If you can reblog it to help get the word out, I would forever appreciate it. I am very proud of my new body of work, and I really am excited to share it with y’all.

Love.

2012 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational
[Event Website]
University of La Verne, CA
April 18–21

Preliminary Bout 2B Results
Thursday, April 19, 8:30 p.m.

• University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (114.6)
• Emerson College (111.8)
• Davidson College (110.5)
• Harvard University (108.6)

CUPSI 2012 Current Standings
(Teams ranked first, Prelims 1 & 2)

                                        Prelim Pts
Macalester College                       233.2
Stanford University                      231.9
Montclair State University               230.4
CUNY-Hostos Community College            228.9
California State University-Northridge   227.6
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities      226.0
New York University                      225.7
University of California-Berkeley        221.7
Emory University                         218.4

Tonight’s Semi-Final, Late Bout
Friday, April 20, 8:00 p.m.

• Stanford University
• CUNY-Hostos Community College
• University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
• University of California-Berkeley
• Virginia Commonwealth University

2012 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational
[Event Website]
University of La Verne, CA
April 18–21

Preliminary Bout 1A Results
Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m.

• University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (111.4)
• Rutgers University (110.7)
• Azusa Pacific University (110.3)
• Berklee College of Music (110.1)

CUPSI 2012 Current Standings
(Teams ranked first after Prelim 1)

                                        Prelim 1 Pts
Virginia Commonwealth University         118.6
Stanford University                      117.1
University of Washington                 116.8
Montclair State University               116.0
Macalester College                       115.8
CUNY-Hostos Community College            114.9
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor         113.1
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities      111.4
University of California-Berkeley        111.2
California State University-Northridge   110.5
New York University                      108.9
Emory University                         105.0

Tonight’s Preliminary Bout 2B
Thursday, April 19, 8:30 p.m.

• University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
• Harvard University
• Emerson College
• Davidson College