A reading given by the winners of Anthology, Inc.’s “Battle of the Bards” contest.
Mesa Public Library
64 East 1 Street
Mesa AZ 85201

Be sure to check out the video we shot at the border during the Binational Poetry Reading earlier this month. It’s my first-ever intensive video editing project. Much more to come!

This time I’m stumbling at 6:15am, Suzy has a date with Sky Harbor airport at 10:00, Nick has one shortly after that. The airport gets around. I sleep in the back of the truck as Suzy throws it down the mountain toward Phoenix, the truck is still full of dust from yesterday’s back roads, the [...]

The 2005 NORAZ Poetry Grand Slam was a complete blast. The winners:

Christopher Lane
Logan Phillips
Christopher Fox Graham
Meghan Jones
Aaron Johnson

Meghan narrowly beat out Aaron for the last spot in a dramatic slam-off. I’m really glad there is a woman on the team this year and Aaron is going to be a great alternate with tons of poems [...]

Ever heard the phrase “slam poetry isn’t real poetry?”
Come explore that idea for yourself at a presentation given this Friday, April 22nd at 4:30pm at NAU’s DuBois ballroom in Flagstaff. Local poet and NORAZ Poets advisory board member Logan Phillips will present slam poetry as a poetry form, as valid as the more well-known [...]

THE 2005 NORAZ POETRY GRAND SLAM
It’s the biggest event of all year! buy tickets!
Hosted by and featuring the founder of the Flagstaff poetry slam, Nick Fox!

I’ll be on the University’s KJACK radio this Tuesday from 7pm-8pm, MST talking up the Grand Slam and probably doing a poem or two. Tune in via streaming mp3 or streaming window media player.
This will be the second radio program I’ve been on in the last two weeks, last week Emilie Vardaman featured my poem [...]

@ DuBois Center, NAU, Flagstaff. More information.
I’ll be presenting “Beyond Page vs. Stage: Slam Poetry as an Accessible Form” with Dan Seaman of Prescott. Here’s the abstract:

Beyond Page vs. Stage: Slam Poetry as an Accessible Form
logan phillips and Daniel H. Seaman
Since it’s inception in the mid-1980’s, the competitive art of Poetry Slam has only continued [...]

There were six of us packed the truck, three more in another car we picked up in Phoenix. Ever south, blasting cumbias through the gridlock, flying without flaw. Leaving Tucson always begins to make me think of home, the rolling hills that can’t decide if the desert has ended or not, endless arroyos and a [...]

During full moons on the border, the helicopters
are violent in the midnight air,
fighting to fly and spy the footsteps
that are called illegal in moonlight.
My house seems to shudder and move
and I’m expected not to notice,
no one is ever expected to notice.
The border is a breath caged in steel,
created with the movement of a pen,
drunk, violent [...]