19th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award – final event

The Guild Literary Complex closes out its 19th Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award competition with its final event: an American Idol-style evening of poetry performance and audience voting. The semifinalists – named after a combination of traditional judging and a public facebook vote – will perform in a series of rounds followed by audience votes. At the end of the evening one poet will be named this year’s GBOMA award winner and go home with a $500 prize!

2012 GBOMA Semi-Finalists:

Amaris Howard

Amelia Garcia

Asia Calcagno

Betsy Merbitz

Bobby Biedryzcki

C.L. McFadyen

Clayton Guse

Dan Hanrahan

Diana Pando

Kate Duva

Kelly Reuter

Kyndall Jones

Lucia Blinn

Nicole Bond

Phyllis Humphries

Quintin Collins

Raven Hogue

Samy Sabh

Sharrieff Muhammad

Stephanie Rose Perez

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