She competes for a spot on the Urban Word slam team, an unprecedented move for a member of the deaf community.
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He is the first Vietnamese American man to have appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, and the National Poetry Slam Individual Finalists Stage, where he placed 6th overall out of over 250 national slam poets.
Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam. Soft Skull Press.
In addition to his work in the Poetry Slam community, Glazner has authored three books: 2002's Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets (La Alameda Press), 2005's How to Make a Living as a Poet (Soft Skull Press) and 2006's How to Make a Life as a Poet (Soft Skull Press).
The Ipswich Poetry Feast also provides assistance to events like the Bush Poets' Performance and the annual Ipswich Country Music Festival and the Poetry Slam in the lead up to the Woodford Folk Festival.
Individual World Poetry Slam, an annual poetry slam tournament held since 2004
He is well known for his role in MCing the Going West Poetry Slam, which has been running annually in West Auckland since 2004.
He first gained attention as a poet and performer when he was 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 they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam.
The team has performed in many places outside of poetry slam including an event hosted by Democracy Now, sharing a stage with Amy Goodman, opening for recording artists Les Nubians, sharing a stage with the hip-hop group Dead Prez, and at such local events as Denver's Black Arts Festival, The Poet As Muse, Club Reign, and Café Cultura.