Arielle Cottingham is a poet and performance artist out of coastal and South Texas, now based in Melbourne, Australia. Her poetry ranges from raw vulnerability to provocative politics, exploring how the personal influences the public, and vice versa. When she isn't writing poetry, she is facilitating it as one of the creative producers for Melbourne's Slamalamadingdong.
Slamalamadingdong! is going PSI, or Poetry Slam, Incorporated, certified. Here’s what that means. In the 1980s, a construction worker named Marc Smith (SO WHAT?) invented the poetry slam, a unique […]
Food and poetry — two things that should go together far more often than they do. Sure, you can order food at whatever bar a majority of the poetry events […]