SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL POETRY SLAM

Current State of Poetry (CSP) and Joburg Theatre Youth Development will host a national slam at the Joburg theatre. This slam comes after a Provincial slam, involving all 9 South African provinces in 2017. Each Province has a winner and that winner will be coming to Johannesburg to slam against other Provinces for a chance to be the national slam champion and represent South Africa in Chad, as part of the Coupe d’Afrique de Slam poesie, CSAP this coming November.

The National Poetry Slam is another step in the CSP mission, that of building a stable and sustainable SA poetry industry. The year 2016 leg of this slam saw the merger of major poetry societies across the country.