News at Eleven (Back Page): The poets call themselves,

appropriately enough, Poets in Unexpected Places.

For almost three years, the five core members--the founders Samantha Thornhill, Jon Sands and Adam Falkner, along with Syreeta McFadden and Elana Bell--have used their ties to a thriving poetry slam community to encourage other wordsmiths to deliver their works in public.

from The New York Times: On the Train, or at the Laundromat, Your Poem Begins . . . Now

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