Spoil yourself. Because we love you, we’ve been putting together our poetry into albums for each year. Each CD features the year’s hottest poets with their favorite pieces, and offers a great selection of spoken word poetry. The album makes a great gift for an aspiring writer or as a gift to yourself. To purchase, click here, or see more info at left.

Deal Alert! Can’t get enough Spoken Word? We don’t blame you. If you buy the album and the chapbook together, we’ll lower the packaged price from $15.00 to $12.00. We love you, too.

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chap·book [chap-book] –noun 1. a small book or pamphlet of popular tales, ballads, etc., formerly hawked about by chapmen. 2. a small book or pamphlet, often of poetry.

You asked for it. After our shows, we get emails asking for excerpts of our work. Now, get all of the show’s pieces in one place, in the latest release of our chapbook from the fall show, “Spoken, Not Slurred.” Inside you’ll find the poems and artists that filled the A3C Ballroom over-capacity, and then brought that crowd to its feet. Chapbooks are available for $5, and CD’s are available for $10. To purchase an item, click here or navigate to the “Contact” tab above.

Penitentiary Album

Penitentiary: 2007 Compilation Album

The 2007 compilation features a wide variety of poetry on social change, with poems on the Native American community, Jamaican roots, and the ever popular Jumbo-Tron churches. Artists include William Von Hoene, Christa Morris, Marlon Footracer, Takeo Rivera, Elliot Luscombe, Ariella Tai, Dylan Keil, Chika Okafor, Gwen Watson, Dawn Maxey, Scott Frank, Jessica Lewis, Liane Al-Ghusain, Gabe Bombara, Philana Omorotionmwan, and Grant Newsome.
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